Add parallel Print Page Options

25 Here is the sea, great and very wide.
In it creatures swarm beyond number—
living things, the small with the large.
26 There the ships go back and forth,
and the leviathan[a] that you formed to play in it.
27 All of them wait hopefully for you to give them their food in its time.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:26 Leviathan refers to large creatures in the sea. Here, in the discussion of creation, it probably refers to whales.

25 There is the sea,(A) vast and spacious,
    teeming with creatures beyond number—
    living things both large and small.(B)
26 There the ships(C) go to and fro,
    and Leviathan,(D) which you formed to frolic(E) there.(F)

27 All creatures look to you
    to give them their food(G) at the proper time.

Read full chapter