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Psalm 104:25–26

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104:25Over here is the deep, wide sea,32

which teems with innumerable swimming creatures,33

living things both small and large.

104:26The ships travel there,

and over here swims the whale34 you made to play in it.

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Psalm 104:25–26: Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

Footnotes

  1. 32 Heb “this [is] the sea, great and broad of hands [i.e., “sides” or “shores”].”
  2. 33 Heb “where [there are] swimming things, and without number.”
  3. 34 Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces hostile to God (see Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1), but here it appears to be an actual marine creature created by God, probably some type of whale.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Here is the sea, great and wide,

which teems with creatures innumerable,

living things both small and great.

There go the ships,

and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There is the sea, vast and spacious,

teeming with creatures beyond number—

living things both large and small.

There the ships go to and fro,

and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Here is the sea, vast and wide,

teeming with creatures beyond number—

living things both large and small.

There the ships move about,

and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

NLTNew Living Translation

Here is the ocean, vast and wide,

teeming with life of every kind,

both large and small.

See the ships sailing along,

and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

This is the great and wide sea,

in which are moving animals without number,

living things small and great.

There the ships sail.

Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.

KJV 1900King James Version

So is this great and wide sea,

Wherein are things creeping innumerable,

Both small and great beasts.

There go the ships:

There is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.