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Pentecost Season · Proper 24 · Year B

Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c

O Lord, How Manifold Are Your Works

October 17, 2027

The Ninth Wave, Ivan Aivazovsky
The Ninth Wave, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Sailors cling to a mast after the wreck, facing the wave that sailors' lore said was the largest of any series. Aivazovsky paints the sunrise coming up through it.They cried to the Lord in their trouble: the psalm's storm and the psalm's deliverance are in one picture, and you cannot yet tell which is winning.Ivan AivazovskyA Russian-Armenian marine painter (1817-1900) who produced around six thousand pictures of the sea, almost all of them from memory rather than from studies.Russian Museum, Saint PetersburgThe first state museum of Russian art, founded by Nicholas II in his father's memory and housed in the Mikhailovsky Palace.Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMark 10:35-45Mk 10:35-45
EpistleHeb. 5:1-10Heb 5:1-10
Old TestamentJob 38:1-7, (34-41)Jb 38:1-7, (34-41)Alt. OTIsa. 53:4-12Is 53:4-12
PsalterPs. 104:1-9, 24, 35cPs 104:1-9, 24, 35cAlt. PsalmPs. 91:9-16Ps 91:9-16

Overview & Insights

"O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all." (Psalm 104:24)

A hymn praising the Lord as creator who is clothed with light, who set the earth on its foundations and bounded the waters, and whose manifold works fill the earth, closing with praise to the Lord.

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Commentary

Enduring Word: Psalm 104Enduring Word: Ps 104 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the creation psalm.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Psalm 104:1BibleHub: Commentaries on Ps 104:1 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries on the Lord clothed with majesty in creation.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Psalms 104 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Ps 104 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and Jewish commentary on the creation psalm.

BibleHub: Psalm 104 InterlinearBibleHub: Ps 104 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the psalm.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Psalm 104Catena: Ps 104 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Psalm 104.

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