O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
- BSB How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
- 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 10:12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 50:10–12For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
- Eph 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,
- Rom 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!
- Ps 107:31Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
- Ps 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
- Gen 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.
- Ps 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- Ps 136:5To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Prov 3:19–20The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
- Neh 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.
- Prov 8:22–36The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
- Gen 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.
- Eph 1:8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
- Job 5:9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Ps 65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
- 1 Tim 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;
- Gen 1:11–12And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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