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¶Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.
Psalms 104:24 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • 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—
  • 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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Jer 10:12He has made the earth by his power. he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
  • Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
  • Ps 50:10–12For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
  • Eph 3:10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
  • Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • Ps 107:31Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!
  • Ps 24:1A Psalm by David. The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
  • Gen 1:24–25God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
  • Ps 8:3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
  • Ps 136:5To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Prov 3:19–20By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
  • Neh 9:6You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
  • Prov 8:22–36“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
  • Gen 1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
  • Eph 1:8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
  • Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
  • Ps 65:11You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
  • 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
  • Gen 1:11–12God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 104:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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