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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 104:25

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Blessing;   Creeping Things;   God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Creeping Things;   The Topic Concordance - Creation;   God;   Holy Spirit;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fishes;   Insects;   Sea, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Nature;   Revelation;   Weather;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Create, Creation;   Thankfulness, Thanksgiving;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Creeping Things;   Leviathan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Creeping Things;   Hallelujah;   Kingdom of God;   Life;   Nature;   Praise;   Providence;   Psalms;   Ships and Boats;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gallery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ships and Boats;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Animals of the Bible;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 21;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.
English Revised Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Update Bible Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are innumerable creeping things, Both small and great beasts.
New Century Version
Look at the sea, so big and wide, with creatures large and small that cannot be counted.
New English Translation
Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.
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 great animals.
Amplified Bible
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Creatures both small and great.
English Standard Version
Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This see is greet and large to hondis; there ben crepinge beestis, of which is noon noumbre. Litil beestis with grete;
Berean Standard Bible
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Contemporary English Version
But what about the ocean so big and wide? It is alive with creatures, large and small.
American Standard Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Bible in Basic English
There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
Complete Jewish Bible
Look at the sea, so great, so wide! It teems with countless creatures, living beings, both large and small.
Darby Translation
Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great.
Easy-to-Read Version
Look at the ocean, so big and wide! It is filled with all kinds of sea life. There are creatures large and small—too many to count!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yonder sea, great and wide,
King James Version (1611)
So is this great and wide Sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable: both small and great beasts.
New Life Bible
There is the wide sea full of both large and small animals. There are too many for us to number.
New Revised Standard
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.
George Lamsa Translation
Behold this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, creatures both small and great.
Good News Translation
There is the ocean, large and wide, where countless creatures live, large and small alike.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This sea here, is great and broad on both hands, - Wherein are creeping things, even without number, Living things, small with great;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-25) So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.
Revised Standard Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teems with things innumerable, living things both small and great.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse: wherein are thinges creeping innumerable, both small and great beastes.
Christian Standard Bible®
Here is the sea, vast and wide,teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small.
Hebrew Names Version
There is the sea, great and wide, In which are innumerable living things, Both small and great animals.
King James Version
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Lexham English Bible
This is the great and wide sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great.
Literal Translation
This is the sea, great and wide on both hands; there are creeping things even without number; living things, 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So is this greate and wyde see also, wherin are thinges crepinge innumerable, both small and greate beastes.
New American Standard Bible
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals both small and great.
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 (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down. 20 Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad: 21 even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God. 22 The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens. 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour till evening. 24 How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation. 25 So is this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. 26 There go the ships; and this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it. 27 All wait upon thee, to give them their food in due season. 28 When thou hast given it them, they will gather it; and when thou hast opened thine hand, they shall all be filled with good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this great: Psalms 95:4, Psalms 95:5, Genesis 1:20-22, Genesis 1:28, Deuteronomy 33:14-16, Deuteronomy 33:19

beasts: Genesis 3:1, Acts 28:5

Reciprocal: Job 26:5 - Dead things Psalms 50:10 - every Psalms 74:14 - leviathan Psalms 148:7 - ye dragons Ezekiel 47:10 - the great sea Jonah 1:17 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So is this great and wide sea,.... One of the great and manifold works of God, made in his wisdom, and full of his riches and possessions, as the earth is; this is that collection of waters which God called seas, Genesis 1:10 and is, as Kimchi observes, great in length, and wide and spacious in breadth; or "broad of hands" i, as in the original; or spacious in borders, as the Targum; it washing the several parts of the continent, and encompassing and embracing the whole earth with both arms as it were. Nor is it unusual with other writers to call the sea the great sea k, and to speak of an arm or arms of the sea l, as we do. Isidore says m, the great sea is that which flows out of the ocean from the west, and goes to the south, and then to the north, called so in comparison of other seas that are less, and is the Mediterranean sea, This is an emblem of the world, which may be compared to the sea for the multitude of nations and people in it, as numerous as the waves of the sea; for the temper of the inhabitants of it, being like the troubled sea, restless and uneasy, casting up the mire of dirt and sin; and for the instability of it, and the fluctuating state and condition of all things in it.

Wherein are things creeping innumerable; so that it seems there are reptiles in the water as well as on land; and indeed every creature without feet, and that goes upon its belly, in the element where it is, whether earth or water, is a creeping thing; of these swimming or creeping things the number is exceeding great, especially of the latter sort; fishes increasing much more than the beasts of the earth. Their species are innumerable; so their kinds or sorts are reckoned up by some one hundred and forty four n, by others one hundred and fifty three o, and by others one hundred and seventy six p; the Malabarians reckon, up 900,000 fishes, and 1,100,000 creeping things q. These are an emblem of the common people of the world, which are innumerable; see Habakkuk 1:14.

Both small and great beasts; for there are creatures in the seas which answer to those on the dry land, both of the lesser and greater sort, as sea lions, sea horses, sea cows, sea hogs, c. these may represent the rulers and governors of the world, supreme and subordinate it is no unusual thing for great monarchies, and persons of great power and authority, to be signified by beasts rising out of the sea, Daniel 7:3.

i רחב ידים "latum manibus", Montanus; "spatiosum manibus", V. L. "amplum manibus", Vatablus. k Virgil. Aeneid. 5. Lucretius, l. 6. l "Veluti par divexum in mare brachium transitum tentaturus", Liv. Hist. l. 44. c. 35. "Nec brachia longos" &c. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 1. v. 13, 14. m Origin. l. 13. c. 16. n Origin. l. 12. c. 6. o Oppianus in Halienticis. Vid. Hieron. in Ezek. 47. fol. 260. p Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 32. c. 11. q Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 963.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So is this great and wide sea ... - Our translation here does not quite express the beauty and the force of the original; “This sea! Great and broad of hands! There is the creeping thing - and there is no number; animals - the little with the great.” The reference here is, undoubtedly to the Mediterranean Sea, which not improbably was in sight when the psalm was composed - as it is in sight not only along the coast, but from many of the elevations in Palestine. The phrase “wide of hands” applied to the sea, means that it seems to stretch out in all directions. Compare the notes at Isaiah 33:21. The “creeping things” refer to the variety of inhabitants of the deep that glide along as if they crept. See the notes at Psalms 104:20. The word “beasts” refers to any of the inhabitants of the deep, and the idea is that there is an endless variety “there.” This reflection cannot but impress itself on the mind of anyone when looking on the ocean: What a countless number, and what a vast variety of inhabitants are there in these waters - all created by God; all provided for by his bounty!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:25. This great and wide sea — The original is very emphatic: זה הים גדול ורחב ידים zeh haiyam gadol urechab yadayim, "This very sea, great and extensive of hands." Its waters, like arms, encompassing all the terrene parts of the globe. I suppose the psalmist was within sight of the Mediterranean when he wrote these words.


 
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