Psalm 104–105

O Lord My God, You Are Very Great

104^lBless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, you are ^mvery great!

ⁿYou are clothed with splendor and majesty,

²covering yourself with light as with a garment,

^ostretching out the heavens ^plike a tent.

³He ^qlays the beams of his ^rchambers on the waters;

he makes ^sthe clouds his chariot;

he rides on ^tthe wings of the wind;

⁴he ^umakes his messengers winds,

his ^vministers ^wa flaming fire.

⁵He ^xset the earth on its foundations,

so that it should never be moved.

⁶You ^ycovered it with the deep as with a garment;

the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At ^zyour rebuke they fled;

at ^athe sound of your thunder they ^btook to flight.

⁸The mountains rose, the valleys sank down

to the place that you ^cappointed for them.

⁹You set ^da boundary that they may not pass,

so that they ^emight not again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs gush forth in the valleys;

they flow between the hills;

¹¹they ^fgive drink to every beast of the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;

they sing among the branches.

^13gFrom your lofty abode you ^hwater the mountains;

the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

¹⁴You cause ⁱthe grass to grow for the livestock

and ^jplants for man to cultivate,

that he may bring forth ^kfood from the earth

¹⁵and ^lwine to gladden the heart of man,

^moil to make his face shine

and bread to ⁿstrengthen man’s heart.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,

^othe cedars of Lebanon ^pthat he planted.

¹⁷In them the birds build their nests;

the stork has her home in the fir trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for ^qthe wild goats;

the rocks are a refuge for ^rthe rock badgers.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the ^sseasons;¹

the sun knows its time for setting.

^20tYou make darkness, and it is night,

when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

^21uThe young lions roar for their prey,

seeking their food from God.

²²When the sun rises, they steal away

and lie down in their ^vdens.

^23wMan goes out to his work

and to his labor until the evening.

²⁴O Lord, how manifold are your works!

In ^xwisdom have you made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, great and wide,

^ywhich teems with creatures innumerable,

living things both small and great.

²⁶There go the ships,

and ^zLeviathan, which you formed to ^aplay in it.²

²⁷These ^ball look to you,

to ^cgive them their food in due season.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it up;

when you ^dopen your hand, they are filled with good things.

²⁹When you ^ehide your face, they are ^fdismayed;

when you ^gtake away their breath, they die

and ^hreturn to their dust.

³⁰When you ⁱsend forth your Spirit,³ they are created,

and you ^jrenew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the Lord ^kendure forever;

may the Lord ^lrejoice in his works,

³²who looks on the earth and it ^mtrembles,

who ⁿtouches the mountains and they smoke!

³³I will sing to the Lord ^oas long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

³⁴May my ^pmeditation be pleasing to him,

for I rejoice in the Lord.

³⁵Let ^qsinners be consumed from the earth,

and let the wicked be no more!

^rBless the Lord, O my soul!

^sPraise the Lord!

Tell of All His Wondrous Works

105^tOh give thanks to the Lord; ^ucall upon his name;

^vmake known his deeds among the peoples!

²Sing to him, sing praises to him;

^wtell of all his wondrous works!

³Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

⁴Seek the Lord and his ^xstrength;

^yseek his presence continually!

⁵Remember the ^zwondrous works that he has done,

his miracles, and ^athe judgments he uttered,

⁶O offspring of ^bAbraham, his servant,

children of Jacob, his ^cchosen ones!

⁷He is the Lord our God;

his ^djudgments are in all the earth.

⁸He ^eremembers his covenant forever,

the word that he commanded, for ^fa thousand generations,

^9gthe covenant that he made with Abraham,

his ^hsworn promise to Isaac,

¹⁰which he confirmed to ⁱJacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹saying, ^j“To you I will give the land of Canaan

as ^kyour portion for an inheritance.”

¹²When they were ^lfew in number,

of little account, and ^msojourners in it,

¹³wandering from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴he ⁿallowed no one to oppress them;

he ^orebuked kings on their account,

¹⁵saying, ^p“Touch not my anointed ones,

do my prophets no harm!”

¹⁶When he ^qsummoned a famine on the land

and ^rbroke all supply¹ of bread,

¹⁷he had ^ssent a man ahead of them,

Joseph, who was ^tsold as a slave.

¹⁸His ^ufeet were hurt with fetters;

his neck was put in a collar of iron;

¹⁹until ^vwhat he had said came to pass,

the word of the Lord ^wtested him.

^20xThe king sent and ^yreleased him;

the ruler of the peoples set him free;

²¹he ^zmade him lord of his house

and ruler of all his possessions,

²²to bind² his princes at his pleasure

and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then ^aIsrael came to Egypt;

Jacob ^bsojourned in ^cthe land of Ham.

²⁴And the Lord ^dmade his people very fruitful

and made them stronger than their foes.

²⁵He ^eturned their hearts to hate his people,

to ^fdeal craftily with his servants.

²⁶He ^gsent Moses, his servant,

and Aaron, ^hwhom he had chosen.

²⁷ⁱThey performed his signs among them

and miracles in ^cthe land of Ham.

²⁸He ^jsent darkness, and made the land dark;

they ^kdid not rebel³ against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood

and ^lcaused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,

even in ^mthe chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came ⁿswarms of flies,

^oand gnats throughout their country.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

and fiery ^plightning bolts through their land.

³³He struck down their vines and fig trees,

and ^qshattered the trees of their country.

³⁴He spoke, and the ^rlocusts came,

young locusts without number,

³⁵which devoured all the vegetation in their land

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He ^sstruck down all the firstborn in their land,

^sthe firstfruits of all their strength.

³⁷Then he brought out Israel with ^tsilver and gold,

and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

^38uEgypt was glad when they departed,

for ^vdread of them had fallen upon it.

³⁹He ^wspread a cloud for a covering,

and fire to give light by night.

^40xThey asked, and he ^ybrought quail,

and gave them ^zbread from heaven in abundance.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and ^awater gushed out;

it flowed through ^bthe desert like a river.

⁴²For he ^cremembered his holy promise,

and ^dAbraham, his servant.

⁴³So he brought his people out with joy,

his ^dchosen ones with ^esinging.

⁴⁴And he ^fgave them the lands of the nations,

and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,

⁴⁵that they might ^gkeep his statutes

and ^hobserve his laws.

ⁱPraise the Lord!