Psalms 104:25 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 104:25

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

BSB

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ASV

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

KJV

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

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Commentary

2 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

FESTAL LETTERS 19:7 (373)

Let us, therefore, in the faith of the disciples, converse frequently with our Master. For the world is like the sea to us, my brothers, of which it is written, "This is the great and wide sea, there go the ships; the Leviathan, which you have created to play therein." We float on this sea, as with the wind, through our own free will, for everyone directs his course according to his will, and either, under the pilotage of the Word, he enters into rest, or, laid hold on by pleasure, he suffers shipwreck and is in peril by storm.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

So is this great and wide sea,.... One of the great and manifold works of God, made in his wisdom, and full of his riches and possessions, as the earth is; this is that collection of waters which God called seas, Gen 1:10 and is, as Kimchi observes, great in length, and wide and spacious in breadth; or "broad of hands" (i), as in the original; or spacious in borders, as the Targum; it washing the several parts of the continent, and encompassing and embracing the whole earth with both arms as it were.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֶ֤ה׀	zeh	this	H2088 →
הַיָּ֥ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
גָּדוֹל֮	ga.dOl	[is] great	H1419 →
וּרְחַ֪ב	u.re.Chav	and wide of	H7342 →
יָ֫דָ֥יִם	ya.Da.yim	both hands	H3027 →
שָֽׁם־	sham-	[are] there	H8033 →
רֶ֭מֶשׂ	Re.mes	moving thing[s]	H7431 →
וְאֵ֣ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
מִסְפָּ֑ר	mis.Par	[is] a number	H4557 →
חַיּ֥וֹת	chai.Yot	living creatures	H2416 →
קְ֝טַנּ֗וֹת	ke.ta.Not	small	H6996 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃	ge.do.Lot	large	H1419 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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…
leads to
- Genesis 9:1
  And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- Genesis 9:7
  But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
- Leviticus 26:9
  I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Psalms 128:3–4
  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Genesis 22:17–18
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Through
Acts 28:5
But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
leads to
- Luke 10:19
  Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
Through
Psalms 69:34
Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
leads to
- Isaiah 49:13
  Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Psalms 150:6
  Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!

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06About Psalms

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Where the connections lead

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