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Psalms 104:24-28

Context

104:24 How many living things you have made, O Lord! 1 

You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; 2 

the earth is full of the living things you have made.

104:25 Over here is the deep, wide sea, 3 

which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, 4 

living things both small and large.

104:26 The ships travel there,

and over here swims the whale 5  you made to play in it.

104:27 All of your creatures 6  wait for you

to provide them with food on a regular basis. 7 

104:28 You give food to them and they receive it;

you open your hand and they are filled with food. 8 

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[104:24]  1 tn Heb “How many [are] your works, O Lord.” In this case the Lord’s “works” are the creatures he has made, as the preceding and following contexts make clear.

[104:24]  2 tn Heb “all of them with wisdom you have made.”

[104:25]  3 tn Heb “this [is] the sea, great and broad of hands [i.e., “sides” or “shores”].”

[104:25]  4 tn Heb “where [there are] swimming things, and without number.”

[104:26]  5 tn Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces hostile to God (see Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1), but here it appears to be an actual marine creature created by God, probably some type of whale.

[104:27]  6 tn Heb “All of them.” The pronoun “them” refers not just to the sea creatures mentioned in vv. 25-26, but to all living things (see v. 24). This has been specified in the translation as “all of your creatures” for clarity.

[104:27]  7 tn Heb “to give their food in its time.”

[104:28]  8 tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”



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