KJV King James Version
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
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Psalm 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
ASV American Standard Version
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 104
21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25 [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
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Original-language word links
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מָֽה־H4100 · mahwhat?רַבּ֬וּH7231 · ra.vavto multiplyמַעֲשֶׂ֨יךָ׀H4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workיְֽהוָ֗הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDכֻּ֭לָּםH3605 · kolallבְּחָכְמָ֣הH2451 · chokh.mahwisdomעָשִׂ֑יתָH6213 · a.sahto make: doמָלְאָ֥הH4390 · ma.leto fillהָ֝אָ֗רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetקִנְיָנֶֽךָ׃H7075 · qin.yanacquisition
Cross-references
Jeremiah 10:12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.Psalm 40:5Many, 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 50:10-12For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!Ephesians 3:10To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,Psalm 107:31Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!Psalm 24:1A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.Genesis 1:24-25And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.Psalm 136:5To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.Psalm 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;Proverbs 3:19-20The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.Nehemiah 9:6Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the seas, and all that [is] therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.Proverbs 8:22-36The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.Ephesians 1:8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.Job 5:9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:1 Timothy 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;Psalm 65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
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