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Psalms 104:25
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist shifts focus from the earth’s general fullness of creatures to the sea as a distinct, divinely established habitat.
The words — The Hebrew יָ֫דָ֥יִם (yadáyim) literally means "both hands," functioning here as an idiom for the sea’s immense width, while רֶ֭מֶשׂ (remes) specifies the countless "moving things" that dwell there.
The thread — This depiction of a populated sea connects to the creation mandate in Genesis 1:28 and anticipates the later summons for all marine life to praise God in Psalms 69:34.
Why it lands — The text asks the reader to observe the sea’s actual described state of teeming, ordered life rather than projecting external fears onto it, thereby grounding the recognition of divine wisdom in observable creation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Cross-references
- Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
- Psalms 95:4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
- Genesis 1:28 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.”
- Acts 28:5 But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
- Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- Genesis 3:1 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?’”
- Deuteronomy 33:14 with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,
- Deuteronomy 33:19 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.”