Psalm 104:25 {103:25}
Good News Translation
There is the ocean, large and wide, where countless creatures live, large and small alike.

New Revised Standard Version
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.

Contemporary English Version
But what about the ocean so big and wide? It is alive with creatures, large and small.

New American Bible
There is the sea, great and wide! It teems with countless beings, living things both large and small.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

this great

Psalm 95:4,5 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. . . .

Genesis 1:20-22,28 God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:14-16,19 Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon. . . .

beasts

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Acts 28:5 And he indeed, shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no harm.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
24How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches. 25So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.26There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:21
And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Psalm 8:8
The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

Psalm 69:34
Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.

Ezekiel 47:10
And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

Psalm 104:24
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