Psalms 104:27

104:27 All of your creatures ¹  wait for you

to provide them with food on a regular basis. ² 

Psalms 8:7

8:7 including all the sheep and cattle,

as well as the wild animals, ³ 

Psalms 67:3

67:3 Let the nations thank you, O God!

Let all the nations thank you! ⁴ 

Psalms 67:5

67:5 Let the nations thank you, O God!

Let all the nations thank you! ⁵ 

Psalms 104:24

104:24 How many living things you have made, O Lord! ⁶ 

You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; ⁷ 

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

Psalms 139:16

139:16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. ⁸ 

All the days ordained for me

were recorded in your scroll

before one of them came into existence. ⁹ 

[104:27]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “to give their food in its time.”

[8:7]  ³ tn Heb “and also the beasts of the field.”

[67:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “let the nations, all of them, thank you.” The prefixed verbal forms in vv. 3-4a are understood as jussives in this call to praise.

[67:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “let the nations, all of them, thank you.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 5 are understood as jussives in this call to praise.

[104:24]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all of them with wisdom you have made.”

[139:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Your eyes saw my shapeless form.” The Hebrew noun גֹּלֶם (golem) occurs only here in the OT. In later Hebrew the word refers to “a lump, a shapeless or lifeless substance,” and to “unfinished matter, a vessel wanting finishing” (Jastrow 222 s.v. גּוֹלֶם). The translation employs the dynamic rendering “when I was inside the womb” to clarify that the speaker was still in his mother’s womb at the time he was “seen” by God.

[139:16]  ¹² tn Heb “and on your scroll all of them were written, [the] days [which] were formed, and [there was] not one among them.” This “scroll” may be the “scroll of life” mentioned in Ps 69:28 (see the note on the word “living” there).