Psalm 104:25 “Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number,…”

Psalm 104:25

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping 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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.

Darby Translation

Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

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Cross references

“this great”

Genesis 1:28 Genesis 1:20–22 Deuteronomy 33:14–16 Deuteronomy 33:19 Psalm 95:4 Psalm 95:5

Genesis 1:28 · BSB

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Genesis 1:20–22 · BSB

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Deuteronomy 33:14–16 · BSB

with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,

Deuteronomy 33:19 · BSB

They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Psalm 95:4 · BSB

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

Psalm 95:5 · BSB

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

“beasts”

Acts 28:5 Genesis 3:1

Acts 28:5 · BSB

But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

Genesis 3:1 · BSB

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

Also

Psalm 69:34

Psalm 69:34 · BSB

Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

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