How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
- KJV O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- NKJV O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions—
- NASB ¶Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.
- NLT O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.
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Quick answer
The psalmist exclaims at how many God's works are, all made in wisdom, filling the earth with His riches. Creation overflows with the wisdom and bounty of God.
Overview
Surveying the vast variety of created things, the psalmist breaks into praise of God's wisdom. Every creature bears witness to the skill of its Maker. Scripture identifies this creating wisdom with Christ, by whom all things were made and in whom are hidden all treasures of wisdom (Colossians 2:3).
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- Jer 10:12The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Ps 40:5Many, 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.
- Ps 50:10–12for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
- Eph 3:10His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
- Rom 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Ps 107:31Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Ps 24:1A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
- Gen 1:24–25And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- Ps 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Ps 136:5By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Prov 3:19–20The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.
- Neh 9:6You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
- Prov 8:22–36The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
- Gen 1:31And 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.
- Eph 1:8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
- Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Ps 65:11You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
- 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- Gen 1:11–12Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
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