Again, the Leviathan

Tonight we enjoy Psalm 104, which has my favorite reference to the Leviathan in the whole Bible:

26 Yonder is the great and wide sea
with its living things too many to number, *
creatures both small and great.
27 There move the ships,
and there is the Leviathan, *
Which you have made for the sport of it.

The King James gives it this way:

²⁵So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
²⁶There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

Sounds positively cute. (Although I guess that's not the Leviathan's real role... still, he sounds fun in these passages.

In other news: Today is the last day of the Daily Office Year Two. The last day of the liturgical year. The last day of the season after Pentecost. (The last day of Ordinary Time.) Tomorrow it's Year One and Advent. Exciting.