Bible Strands
Psalms 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses Yahweh in the middle of a creation catalog, pivoting between human labor (v. 23) and the sea's teeming life (v. 25). This is an exclamation, not a petition.
The words — מַעֲשֶׂיךָ (ma'aseikha, "your works") is a concrete plural naming finished products, not an abstraction. בְּחָכְמָה (bechokhmah, "with wisdom") specifies the instrument, making the act deliberate rather than spontaneous.
The thread — Jeremiah 10:12 pairs power with wisdom in the same act of making the world. Psalms 40:5 echoes the "many" of v. 24 in "many… wonders You have done."
Why it lands — The verse forces a choice: either the earth is full of creatures by chance, or a mind with wisdom filled it. It asks the reader to stop treating the world as background noise.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 10:12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Psalms 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
- Psalms 50:10 for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
- Romans 11:33 O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Ephesians 3:10 His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
- Psalms 107:31 Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- Psalms 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
- Psalms 8:3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 136:5 By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.