Psalm 104:25

Translations

Modern

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Traditional

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Literal

This is the sea, great and wide—in it are teeming things, and without number, living things small with the great.

Latin

Hoc mare magnum et spatiosum manibus; illic reptilia quorum non est numerus: animalia pusilla cum magnis.

Original

Hebrew

English

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Notes

Psalms 104:25

teeming with creatures beyond number: The ocean is full of all kinds of life (see Genesis 1:20–21). This shows the Lord's creative work.

Psalms 104:24–26

The Lord’s works testify to his wisdom. All parts fit together (land and sea, night and day, land creatures and sea creatures). The Lord’s wisdom makes life orderly and wonderful.

Psalms 104:1–35

This creation hymn (see also Psalms 8, 33, 145) praises God's goodness and greatness. The psalmist thinks about the current world, the original creation, and a future new creation. He views both creations as wonderfully and wisely made (compare Psalm 139:14), as the work of the Lord's Spirit (104:30; Genesis 1:2; 2 Corinthians 3:6).

Theme notes and profiles

David Beauty in Nature Blessing The Creator-King The Holy Spirit’s Presence

Related verses

Psalm 69:34
Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
Psalm 95:4–5
In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
Acts 28:5
But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:20–22
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Deuteronomy 33:14–16
…with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Deuteronomy 33:19
They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Glossary

David Foreordination Music New Creation, New Creature Psalms, Book of

Topics

Animals: Habits of Animals: Homes of Blessing: Temporal, from God Creeping Things: A General Term for Animals Fishes: Number and Variety of God: Providence of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Insects: Fed by God The Sea of Immense Extent The Sea: Called The: Great and Wide Sea The Sea: Inhabited by Innumerable Creatures Great and Small

Psalm 104:25

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