Psalm 104:30

Translations

Modern

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Traditional

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Literal

You send forth Your Spirit—they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Latin

Emittes spiritum tuum, et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terræ.

Original

Hebrew

English

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Notes

Psalms 104:29–30

When You send Your Spirit: Life on earth is only possible as the Lord’s gift, symbolized by his breath (Hebrew ruakh, which means "breath, wind, or spirit"). The Lord’s Spirit is the agent of renewal (Isaiah 32:15–20).

Psalms 104:27–30

All living things depend on the Lord, who provides what they need and who has power over life and death (compare Matthew 6:11).

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

Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Revelation 21:5
And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
Ezekiel 37:9
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Isaiah 65:17
For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Psalm 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Job 26:13
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 2:4–5
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Isaiah 66:22
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Isaiah 32:14–15
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Glossary

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

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God Creation: Effected by the Holy Spirit God: Creator God: Power of God: Providence of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Life: from God Power of the Holy Spirit: The Creation The Power of the Holy Spirit: Exhibited in Creation

Psalm 104:30

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