Psalms 104:24

24 How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Psalms 104:24 in Other Translations

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

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

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

24 What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations.

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

24 What a large number of things you have made, O LORD! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.

24 How countless are Your works, Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

24 Lord, you have made so many things! How wise you were when you made all of them! The earth is full of your creatures.

Psalms 104:24 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 104:24

O Lord, how manifold are thy works
The psalmist having taken notice of many of the works of creation, stops and wonders at the number of them; though he had not gone through them all, and there were even things innumerable behind; see ( Psalms 104:25 ) , he admires the sum of them, how great it was; and not only the quantity but the quality of them; for so the words may be rendered, "how great are thy works" ^F7, as for number, so for nature; in which there is such an amazing display of the greatness and power of God, and particularly of his wisdom, as is observed in the next clause.

In wisdom hast thou made them all
not only one thing, as the heavens, ( Psalms 136:5 ) , but everything is wisely contrived and made; there is a most glorious display of the wisdom of God in the most minute thing his hands have made; he has made everything beautiful in its season: a skilful artificer, when he has finished his work and looks it over again, often finds some fault or another in it: but when the Lord had finished his works of creation, and looked over them, he saw that all was good; infinite wisdom itself could find no blemish in them: what weak, foolish, stupid creatures must they be that pretend to charge any of the works of God with folly, or want of wisdom? Some by "wisdom" here understand Christ himself, the wisdom of God; and not amiss, since without him was not anything made; see ( Proverbs 3:19 ) .

The earth is full of thy riches:
or possessions ^F8; for as the Lord is the maker, he is the proprietor and the possessor of heaven and earth, and all that is in them, and can and does dispose thereof as seems good in his sight; and whatever of the riches and good things of the earth men may have, they are only stewards, the Lord is the rightful owner and possessor of them; see ( Genesis 14:19 ) ( Psalms 24:1 ) , with which compare ( Psalms 33:5 ) , (See Gill on Psalms 33:5).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (wbr hm) "quam multa ac magna", Gejerus.
F8 (Knynp) "possessione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus; "tuis possessionibus", Tigurine version, Vatablus, Piscator, Michaelis.

Psalms 104:24 In-Context

22 The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens.

23 Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.

24 How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

25 There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.

26 There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 40:5
• 2. S Genesis 1:31; Proverbs 3:19
• 3. Psalms 24:1; Psalms 50:10-11