³ tn Or “creature, created things.”

¹ tn Grk “large sea creature.”

⁵ tn Heb “living creature.”

² tn Heb “for all the creatures.”

¹ tn Heb “That was the living creature.”

¹ tn Heb “it was the living creature.”

¹ tn Heb “the life of the flesh.” Here “flesh” stands for “every living thing,” that is, all creatures (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT “every creature”; CEV “every living creature.”

² tn Heb “a cherub” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “the cherubim” (plural); TEV “his winged creature”; CEV “flying creatures.”

¹ tn Or “a third of the living creatures in the sea”; Grk “the third of the creatures which were in the sea, the ones having life.”

¹ tn Grk (plurals), “every kind of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures.”

² tn Heb “Therefore desert creatures will live with jackals, and ostriches will live in it.”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the summons by the fourth creature.

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the summons by the third creature.

¹ sn The cherubim (singular “cherub”) refer to the images of winged angelic creatures that were above the ark of the covenant.

² tn The rhetorical question again affirms the opposite. The poem is portraying the creature as powerful and insensitive.

¹ tc The MT reads: “and the form of the creatures” (וּדְמוּת הַחַיּוֹת, ud^emut hakhayyot). The LXX reads: “and in the midst of the creatures,” suggesting an underlying Hebrew text of וּמִתּוֹךְ הַחַיּוֹת (umittokh hakhayyot). The subsequent description of something moving among the creatures supports the LXX.

³ tn Grk “shaking the creature off…he suffered no harm.” The participle ἀποτινάξας (apotinaxas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹ sn The point of this saying is that a weak creature like a lizard, that is so easily caught, cannot be prevented from getting into the most significant places.

² tn Heb “and all the host of them.” Here the “host” refers to all the entities and creatures that God created to populate the world.

¹ tn Heb “All of them.” The pronoun “them” refers not just to the sea creatures mentioned in vv. 25-26, but to all living things (see v. 24). This has been specified in the translation as “all of your creatures” for clarity.