Psalms 104:30

King James Version

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;And You renew the face of the ground.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When thou sendest out thy spirite, they be recreated: and thou reuiuest the face of the earth.

Darby Translation
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.

New King James Version
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.

Literal Translation
You send out Your Spirit, and they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.

Easy-to-Read Version
But when you send out your life-giving breath, things come alive, and the world is like new again!

World English Bible
You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

King James Version (1611)
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, when thou lattest thy breth go forth, they are made, and so thou renuest the face of the earth.

Amplified Bible
You send out Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the ground.

American Standard Version
Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.

Bible in Basic English
If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

Update Bible Version
You send forth your Spirit, they are created; And you renew the face of the ground.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

New English Translation
When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Contemporary English Version
You created all of them by your Spirit, and you give new life to the earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
If you send out your breath, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe if thou send forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renuest the face of the earth.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Hebrew Names Version
You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created; and Thou renewest the face of the earth.

New Living Translation
When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.

New Life Bible
They are made when You send Your Spirit. And You make the land of the earth new again.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt send forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created; and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

English Revised Version
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.

Berean Standard Bible
When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

New Revised Standard
When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, And thou renewest the face of the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-30) Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Lexham English Bible
You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

English Standard Version
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

New American Standard Bible
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.

New Century Version
When you breathe on them, they are created, and you make the land new again.

Good News Translation
But when you give them breath, they are created; you give new life to the earth.

Christian Standard Bible®
When You send Your breath, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sende out thi spirit, and thei schulen be formed of the newe; and thou schalt renule the face of the erthe.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

Revised Standard Version
When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. ²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. ²¹ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. ²² The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. ²³ Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. ²⁴ O Lord , how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. ²⁶ There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. ²⁷ These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. ²⁸ That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sendest: Psalms 33:6, Job 26:13, Job 33:4, Isaiah 32:14, Isaiah 32:15, Ezekiel 37:9, Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Titus 3:5

renewest: Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, Revelation 21:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Genesis 1:2 - Spirit Ezekiel 37:5 - I will Ezekiel 37:10 - the breath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created,.... Thy Holy Spirit, as the Targum, who was at first concerned in the creation of all things, the heavens and the earth, and man upon it, Genesis 1:2

Job 26:13 which may be alluded to here; though it seems chiefly to intend the generation and production of creatures in the room of those that die off; that so their species may be preserved, and there may be a constant succession of them, as there is in all ages, Ecclesiastes 1:4.

And thou renewest the face of the earth; by a new set of creatures of all kinds being brought upon it to fill it. As there is also a daily renewing it every morning by the rising sun, giving fresh life and vigour to all created beings; and a yearly one every spring, when the face of all nature is renewed and revived. Jarchi and Arama understand it of the resurrection of the dead; this sense Kimchi mentions as an article of their faith, but not as the sense of the text. It may be applied to the renewing work of the Spirit of God in the souls of men, by whom they are made new, and by whom they are daily renewed in the Spirit of their minds. And there are particular seasons in which God sends forth his Spirit and renews the face of things in the world, and in his churches; upon the effusion of his Spirit in the first times of the Gospels, there was a new face of things, not only in the land of Judea, but throughout the whole Gentile world, where old things passed away, and all things became new; as in the latter day, when the Spirit shall be poured forth from on high, there will be a renewing of the face of the earth again; it will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea; the kingdoms of it will become Christ's; new heavens and a new earth will be created, and Jerusalem will be made a rejoicing, and her people a joy, Isaiah 65:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created - That is, New races are created in their place, or start up as if they were created directly by God. They derive their being from him as really as those did which were first formed by his hand, and the work of creation is constantly going on.

And thou renewest the face of the earth - The earth is not suffered to become desolate. Though one generation passes off, yet a new one is made in its place, and the face of the earth constantly puts on the aspect of freshness and newness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created — יבראון yibbareun, "They are created again."

And thou renewest the face of the earth. — Do not these words plainly imply a resurrection of the bodies which have died, been dissolved, or turned to dust? And is not the brute creation principally intended here? Is it not on this account it is said, Psalms 104:31, "the glory of the Lord shall endure for ever, (לעולם leolam,)" to be manifest in those times which are secret, when Jehovah himself shall rejoice in his works; when the brute creation shall be delivered from the bondage of its corruption? See the notes on Romans 8:19-23.