Psalms 104:26

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

25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

27 All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

28 When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
KJV
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
WEB
There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
ASV
There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.
DARBY
There go the ships; [there] that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein.
BLB
There the ships go about, [and] Leviathan, which You formed to play in it.
ÅB
Der går skipene, Leviatan[^1], som du skapte til å leke seg der.
OTB
Skipene seiler der,
Og Leviatan, som Du har formet til å leke i det.
B1930
Der går skibene, Leviatan, som du skapte til å leke sig der. / < SLM 74, 14.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 107:23

    Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

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  • Isaiah 27:1

    In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

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  • Psalms 74:14

    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

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  • Genesis 49:13

    Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.

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  • Ezekiel 27:9

    The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

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  • Job 41:1–34

    “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

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  • Job 3:8

    May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

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