Psalm 104:25
New International Version
There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.

New Living Translation
Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.

English Standard Version
Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.

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

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

New King James Version
This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great.

New American Standard Bible
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals both small and great.

NASB 1995
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals both small and great.

NASB 1977
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals both small and great.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the sea, great and broad, There the creeping things are without number, Creatures both small and great.

Amplified Bible
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Creatures both small and great.

Christian Standard Bible
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number — living things both large and small.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.

American Standard Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
This is the great sea and an expanse round about in which are swarming things without number, great creatures with the small.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So is this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great.

Contemporary English Version
But what about the ocean so big and wide? It is alive with creatures, large and small.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

English Revised Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The sea is so big and wide with countless creatures, living things both large and small.

Good News Translation
There is the ocean, large and wide, where countless creatures live, large and small alike.

International Standard Version
There is the deep and wide sea, teeming with numberless creatures, living things small and great.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Yonder sea, great and wide, Therein are creeping things innumerable, Living creatures, both small and great.

Literal Standard Version
This, the sea, great and broad of sides, | There [are] moving things—innumerable, | Living creatures—small with great.

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

New American Bible
There is the sea, great and wide! It teems with countless beings, living things both large and small.

NET Bible
Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

New Revised Standard Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.

New Heart English Bible
There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Webster's Bible Translation
So is this great and wide sea, in which are creeping animals innumerable, both small and great beasts.

World English Bible
There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Young's Literal Translation
This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

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Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. 25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. 26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:21
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Psalm 8:8
the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Psalm 69:34
Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.


Treasury of Scripture

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

this great

Psalm 95:4,5
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also…

Genesis 1:20-22,28
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…

Deuteronomy 33:14-16,19
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, …

beasts

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?

Acts 28:5
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

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Psalm 104
1. A meditation upon the mighty power
7. And wonderful providence of God
31. God's glory is eternal
33. The prophet vows perpetually to praise God














(25) So is . . .--Better, Yonder is the sea great and broad. For a moment the poet, "lost in wonder, love and praise," has forgotten his model, the Mosaic account of creation. But suddenly, as his eye catches sight of the sea--we imagine him on some hill-top, commanding on the one hand the range of Lebanon, on the other the Mediterranean--the words recur to him, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly," &c

Creeping.--See Psalm 104:20. Perhaps here, "swarming."

Verse 25. - So is this great and wide sea; rather, yonder sea too (is thy work), so great and wide stretching. Wherein are things creeping (rather, moving things) innumerable. The abundant life of the sea, even in its depths, is the admiration of all naturalists. Tens of thousands of microscopic shells have been brought to light by the dredger's labours almost everywhere. Both small and great beasts. Microscopic shellfish on the one hand; seals, walruses, sharks, whales, on the other.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Here
זֶ֤ה ׀ (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is the sea,
הַיָּ֥ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

vast
גָּדוֹל֮ (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

and wide,
וּרְחַ֪ב (ū·rə·ḥaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7342: Wide, broad

teeming with creatures
רֶ֭מֶשׂ (re·meś)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7431: A reptile, any other rapidly moving animal

beyond number,
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

living things
חַיּ֥וֹת (ḥay·yō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

both great
גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ (gə·ḏō·lō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

and
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

small.
קְ֝טַנּ֗וֹת (qə·ṭan·nō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 6996: Small, young, unimportant


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