> Ps. 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Regarding this verse, it is sometimes alleged that this indicates a flat earth, for on a globe, east does meet west. The Hebrew terms here—mazrach and ma'arab—are equivalent to saying, "the rising" and "the setting", so that it is essentially like our "sunrise" and "sunset". Obviously, we still use this sort of phenomenological language today, so this verse can hardly be criticized on the same basis.

Even so, it is a bit tricky to assert that abstract concepts like "east" and "west" are like physical objects that can meet around a globe and come to a grinding halt. One would suggest that they could proceed around the globe infinitely since they have nothing to run into.

As a side note, we should consider the verse previous to this one:

> Ps. 103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

So then—this reckons as a parallel to the next verse; and since the idea the Psalmist is putting across is that God's mercy and forgiveness are INFINITE, this seems to argue for an infinite distance along the earth—which would work either on a globe OR on a flat earth (after all, east and west don't stop at the edge, either)—and for an infinitely high sky, we might add.