Psalm 104:24
New International Version
How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

New Living Translation
O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.

English Standard Version
O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Berean Standard Bible
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

King James Bible
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

New King James Version
O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions—

New American Standard Bible
LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.

NASB 1995
O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.

NASB 1977
O LORD, how many are Thy works! In wisdom Thou hast made them all; The earth is full of Thy possessions.

Legacy Standard Bible
How numerous are Your works, O Yahweh! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.

Amplified Bible
O LORD, how many and varied are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.

Christian Standard Bible
How countless are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
How countless are Your works, LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

American Standard Version
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
How many are your works LORD JEHOVAH, and you have made them all in wisdom, and you have filled the earth with your possessions!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation.

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD, by your wisdom you made so many things; the whole earth is covered with your living creatures.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.

English Revised Version
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
What a large number of things you have made, O LORD! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.

Good News Translation
LORD, you have made so many things! How wisely you made them all! The earth is filled with your creatures.

International Standard Version
How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.

JPS Tanakh 1917
How manifold are Thy works, O LORD! In wisdom hast Thou made them all; The earth is full of Thy creatures.

Literal Standard Version
How many have been Your works, O YHWH, | You have made all of them in wisdom, | The earth is full of your possessions.

Majority Standard Bible
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

New American Bible
How varied are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

NET Bible
How many living things you have made, O LORD! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

New Revised Standard Version
O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

New Heart English Bible
LORD, how many are your works. In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Webster's Bible Translation
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

World English Bible
Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Young's Literal Translation
How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

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Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
23Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening. 24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. 25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:31
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 50:10
for every beast of the forest is Mine--the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psalm 65:9
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

Psalm 136:5
By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Proverbs 3:19
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

Proverbs 8:22
The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.


Treasury of Scripture

O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.

how

Psalm 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalm 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalm 107:31
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

in wisdom

Psalm 136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Proverbs 3:19,20
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens…

the earth

Psalm 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 50:10-12
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills…

Psalm 65:11
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

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Psalm 104
1. A meditation upon the mighty power
7. And wonderful providence of God
31. God's glory is eternal
33. The prophet vows perpetually to praise God














(24) Riches.--LXX., "creation;" Aquila, Symmachus, and the Vulg., "possession." The MSS. vary between singular and plural. Creatures will perhaps. best express the sense here.

There is something as fine in art as true in religion in this sudden burst of praise--the "evening voluntary" of grateful adoration--into which the poet bursts at the mention of the day's close. Weariness leaves the soul, as it is lifted from contemplation of man's toil to that of God. Athanasius remarked on the sense of rest and refreshment produced by this change of strain.

Verse 24. - O Lord, how manifold are thy works! This is a parenthetic ejaculation, from which the psalmist cannot refrain, as he contemplates creation so far. It breaks the continuity of his description (vers. 2-32), but not unpleasingly. In wisdom hast thou made them all (comp. Proverbs 3:19, "The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens"). (On the "wisdom" of God, as shown in creation, see the whole series of 'Bridgewater Treatises.') The earth is full of thy riches; or possessions (comp. Psalm 105:21). "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof" (Psalm 24:1). Creation gives the right of ownership.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
How
מָֽה־ (māh-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

many
רַבּ֬וּ (rab·bū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7231: To cast together, increase, in number, to multiply by the myriad

are Your works,
מַעֲשֶׂ֨יךָ ׀ (ma·‘ă·śe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

O LORD!
יְֽהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

In wisdom
בְּחָכְמָ֣ה (bə·ḥā·ḵə·māh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

You have made
עָשִׂ֑יתָ (‘ā·śî·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

them all;
כֻּ֭לָּם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the earth
הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

is full of
מָלְאָ֥ה (mā·lə·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

Your creatures.
קִנְיָנֶֽךָ׃ (qin·yā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7075: Creation, creatures, acquisition, purchase, wealth


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