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Psalm 104:25

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

23Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
24LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
25There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.
26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
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The sea’s vastness and its countless creatures draw attention to how much of God’s work lives beyond human sight, from small animals to large ones.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 69:34Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!Both passages attend to the sea and its inhabitants, with Psalm 69 naming them among those summoned to praise God.
Psalm 95:4–5In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.Both describe vast parts of God’s world: the sea here, and earth’s depths and mountain heights in Psalm 95.
Genesis 1:28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, …Sea creatures appear in both passages, as part of the psalm’s abundant life and within humanity’s God-given dominion in Genesis.
Ezekiel 47:10It will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, …Ezekiel compares the multitude of fish to those of the great sea, whose countless inhabitants Psalm 104 describes.
Genesis 1:20–22God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”Genesis records God’s command for waters to abound with living creatures; the psalm describes the sea filled with innumerable living things.
Acts 28:5However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.The shared detail is creature life; Psalm 104 describes sea animals, while Acts recounts shaking off a creature without harm.
Deuteronomy 33:14–16for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,The overlap is limited to the natural world’s riches: sea life in the psalm and precious produce in Deuteronomy.
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any …Both speak of animals within God’s creation; Genesis turns to the serpent’s speech, while the psalm surveys sea life.
Deuteronomy 33:19They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden …Both describe the sea’s abundance, with the psalm naming its living things and Deuteronomy describing people drawing from its wealth.
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Encouragement

Your knowledge of the sea may be small. The surrounding lines praise God’s wisdom in making its countless creatures, and describe them all waiting on him for food.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).