Psalm 104–105

PSALM 104

The Glory of Yahweh Endures Forever

^1aBless Yahweh, O my soul!

O Yahweh my God, You are very great;

You are ^bclothed with splendor and majesty,

²Wrapping Yourself with ^alight as with a cloak,

^bStretching out the heavens like a tent curtain.

³¹He ^alays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;

²He sets up the ^bclouds to be His chariot;

³He walks upon the ^cwings of the wind;

⁴¹He makes His ²angels ^athe winds,

His ministers flaming ^bfire.

⁵He ^afounded the earth upon its place,

So that it will not ¹shake forever and ever.

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

The waters were standing above the mountains.

⁷At Your ^arebuke they fled,

At the ^bsound of Your thunder they hurried away in alarm.

⁸The mountains went up; the valleys went down

To the ^aplace which You founded for them.

⁹You set a ^aboundary that they may not pass over,

So that they will not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰¹He sends forth ^asprings in the valleys;

They flow between the mountains;

¹¹They ^agive water to every beast of the field;

The ^bwild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²Above them the birds of the heavens ^adwell;

They give forth their voices among the branches.

¹³¹He ^agives water to the mountains from His upper chambers;

^bThe earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

¹⁴¹He causes the ^agrass to grow for the ²cattle,

And ^bvegetation for man’s ³cultivation,

To bring forth ⁴food ^cfrom the earth,

¹⁵And ^awine which makes man’s heart glad,

^bTo make his face glisten more than oil,

And ¹food which ^csustains man’s heart.

¹⁶The trees of Yahweh are satisfied,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

¹⁷Where the ^abirds build their nests,

The ^bstork’s home is in the ¹fir trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the ^awild goats;

The ^bcliffs are a refuge for the ^1cshephanim.

¹⁹He made the moon ^afor the seasons;

The ^bsun knows the place of its setting.

²⁰You ^aappoint darkness so that it becomes night,

In which all the ^bbeasts of the forest ^ccreep about.

²¹The ^ayoung lions roar to go after their prey

And to ^bseek their food from God.

²²When the sun rises they gather together

And lie down in their ^adens.

²³Man goes forth to ^ahis work

And to his labor until evening.

²⁴How ^anumerous are Your works, O Yahweh!

¹In ^bwisdom You have made them all;

The ^cearth is full of Your ²possessions.

²⁵This is the ^asea, great and ¹broad,

There the creeping things are without number,

Creatures both small and great.

²⁶There the ^aships move along,

And ^1bLeviathan, which You have formed to play in it.

²⁷They all ^await for You

To ^bgive them their food in ¹due season.

²⁸You give to them, they gather it up;

You ^aopen Your hand, they are satisfied with good.

²⁹You ^ahide Your face, they are dismayed;

You ^btake away their ¹spirit, they breathe their last

And ^creturn to their dust.

³⁰You send forth Your ^1aSpirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the ground.

³¹Let the ^aglory of Yahweh endure forever;

Let Yahweh ^bbe glad in His works;

³²¹He ^alooks at the earth, and it ^btrembles;

He ^ctouches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³¹I will sing to Yahweh ^athroughout my life;

²I will ^bsing praise to my God ³while I have my being.

³⁴Let my ^amusing be pleasing to Him;

As for me, I shall ^bbe glad in Yahweh.

³⁵Let sinners be ^aconsumed from the earth

And let the ^bwicked be no more.

^cBless Yahweh, O my soul.

^1dPraise Yah!

PSALM 105

Remember His Wondrous Deeds

¹Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, ^bcall upon His name;

^cMake known His acts among the peoples.

²Sing to Him, ^asing praises to Him;

^bMuse on all His wondrous deeds.

³Boast in His holy name;

Let the ^aheart of those who seek Yahweh be glad.

⁴Inquire of Yahweh and ^aHis strength;

^bSeek His face continually.

⁵Remember His ^awondrous deeds which He has done,

His miracles and the ^bjudgments ¹uttered by His mouth,

⁶O seed of ^aAbraham, His servant,

O sons of ^bJacob, His ^cchosen ones!

⁷He is Yahweh our God;

His ^ajudgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^aremembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded for a ^bthousand generations,

^9aWhich He cut with Abraham,

And His ^boath to Isaac.

¹⁰Then He ^aconfirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, “^aTo you I will give the land of Canaan

As the ^1bportion of your inheritance,”

¹²When they were only a ^afew men in number,

Of little account, and ^bsojourners in it.

¹³And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He ^apermitted no man to oppress them,

And He ^breproved kings for their sakes:

¹⁵“^aDo not touch My anointed ones,

And to My prophets do no evil.”

¹⁶And He ^acalled for a famine upon the land;

He ^bbroke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He ^asent a man before them,

Joseph, who was ^bsold as a slave.

¹⁸They afflicted his ^afeet with fetters,

¹He himself was laid in irons;

¹⁹Until the time that his ^aword came to pass,

The word of Yahweh ^brefined him.

²⁰The ^aking sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples sent and set him free.

²¹He ^aset him up as lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

²²To ¹imprison his princes ^2aat will,

And that he might teach his elders wisdom.

^23aThen Israel came to Egypt;

And Jacob ^bsojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He ^acaused His people to be very fruitful,

And He caused them to be stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He ^aturned their heart to hate His people,

To ^bdeal craftily with His slaves.

²⁶He ^asent Moses His servant,

And ^bAaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They ^aset forth the words of His signs among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸He ^asent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not ^brebel against His words.

²⁹He ^aturned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with ^afrogs

Even in the ^bchambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came a ^aswarm of flies

And ^bgnats in all their territory.

³²He ¹gave them ^ahail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

³³He also ^astruck down their vines and their fig trees,

And He shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and ^alocusts came,

And creeping locusts, without number,

³⁵And ¹they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ²they ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He also ^astruck down all the firstborn in their land,

The ^bfirst of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought them out with ^asilver and gold,

And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was ^aglad when they went out,

For the ^bdread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a ^acloud for a ¹covering,

And ^bfire to give light by night.

⁴⁰¹They ^aasked, and He brought ^bquail,

And He satisfied them with the ^2cbread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the ¹rock and ^awater flowed out;

²It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He ^aremembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

⁴³And He brought His people out with joy,

His chosen ones with a shout of ^ajoy.

⁴⁴He ^agave them also the lands of the ¹nations,

That they ^bmight take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

⁴⁵So that they might ^akeep His statutes

And observe His laws,

¹Praise Yah!