Psalm 104:14

Translations

Modern

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Traditional

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Literal

…causing the grass to sprout for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, to bring forth food from the earth,

Latin

…producens fœnum jumentis, et herbam servituti hominum, ut educas panem de terra,

Original

Hebrew

English

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Notes

Psalms 104:14

for man to cultivate: People are the managers of the created order, and they receive nourishment from the work of their hands.

Psalms 104:11–18

The psalmist celebrates animal, plant, and human life, as well as the Lord’s abundant provision for all of it (Genesis 1:9–30).

Psalms 104:1–35

This creation hymn (see also Psalms 8, 33, 145) praises God's goodness and greatness. The psalmist thinks about the current world, the original creation, and a future new creation. He views both creations as wonderfully and wisely made (compare Psalm 139:14), as the work of the Lord's Spirit (104:30; Genesis 1:2; 2 Corinthians 3:6).

Theme notes and profiles

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Psalm 136:25
He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalm 147:8–9
…who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Psalm 145:15–16
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Job 28:5
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Genesis 1:11–12
Then 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.
Genesis 3:18
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Job 38:27
…to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
Genesis 1:29–30
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Jeremiah 14:5–6
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Joel 2:22
Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

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Psalm 104:14

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