104:14 He provides grass 1 for the cattle,
and crops for people to cultivate, 2
so they can produce food from the ground, 3
104:26 The ships travel there,
and over here swims the whale 4 you made to play in it.
1 tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”
2 tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).
3 tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”
4 tn Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces hostile to God (see Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1), but here it appears to be an actual marine creature created by God, probably some type of whale.