Psalms 104:25
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Psalms 104:25 in other translations
| BSB | Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. |
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| WEB | There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. |
| ASV | Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. |
| YLT | This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things--innumerable, Living creatures--small with great. |
| DARBY | Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great. |
| BBE | There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. |
| Webster | So is this great and wide sea, in which are creeping animals innumerable, both small and great beasts. |
What does Psalms 104:25 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 104:24-26
24-26. From a view of the earth thus full of God's blessings, the writer passes to the sea, which, in its immensity, and as a scene and means of man's activity in commerce, and the home of countless multitudes of creatures, also displays divine power and beneficence. The mention of
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 104:19-30
We are to praise and magnify God for the constant succession of day and night. And see how those are like to the wild beasts, who wait for the twilight, and have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Does God listen to the language of mere nature, even in ravenous creatures, and shall he not much more interpret favourably the language of grace in his own people, though weak and broken groanings which…
Psalms 104:25 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 104:25
- Psalms 69:34
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
- Psalms 95:4-5
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
- Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:20-22
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Acts 28:5
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
- Deuteronomy 33:14-16
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
- Deuteronomy 33:19
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
95:4,5; Ge 1:20-22,28; De 33:14-16,19
beasts.
Ge 3:1; Ac 28:5
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Context
- Psalms 104:24
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Psalms 104:25
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
- Psalms 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psalms 104:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asimismo esta gran mar y ancha de términos: en ella pescados sin número, animales pequeños y grandes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Cette mer, grande et vaste en tous sens! Là se meuvent sans nombre des animaux, les petits avec les grands; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dieses Meer, groß und ausgedehnt nach allen Seiten hin: daselbst wimmelts, ohne Zahl, von Tieren klein und groß. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Convertit cor eorum, ut odirent populum ejus, et dolum facerent in servos ejus. |