So is... — Better, Yonder is the sea great and broad. For a moment the poet, “lost in wonder, love and praise,” has forgotten his model, the Mosaic account of creation. But suddenly, as his eye catches sight of the sea — we imagine him on some hill-top, commanding on the one hand the range of Lebanon, on the other the Mediterranean — the words recur to him, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly,” &c
Creeping. — See Psalms 104:20. Perhaps here, “swarming.”