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104:10-13 The Lord Provides Water for the Creatures on Land. This section moves from the boundary between water and land, to the way God abundantly supplies the water that the land animals depend on. The term beast of the field (v. 11) refers to wild animals (see notes on Gen. 1:24-25; 2:20); the wild donkeys are onagers, a species of donkey that does not seem ever to have been domesticated. This suggests that these valleys, hills (Ps. 104:10), and mountains (v. 13) are uninhabited by man. Although God made the world an ideal place for human beings to live, his creation is filled with more creatures than simply the ones useful to man; and this helps the pious to admire God's bountiful care.