Psalm 104–105

Psalm 104

¹Bless ^athe Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, You are very great:

You are clothed with honor and majesty,

²Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,

Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

^3bHe lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,

Who makes the clouds His chariot,

Who walks on the wings of the wind,

⁴Who makes His angels spirits,

His ¹ministers a flame of fire.

⁵You who ²laid the foundations of the earth,

So that it should not be moved forever,

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

The waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At Your rebuke they fled;

At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

⁸³They went up over the mountains;

They went down into the valleys,

To the place which You founded for them.

⁹You have ^dset a boundary that they may not pass over,

^eThat they may not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰He sends the springs into the valleys;

They flow among the hills.

¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²By them the birds of the heavens have their home;

They sing among the branches.

^13fHe waters the hills from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with ^gthe fruit of Your works.

^14hHe causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the service of man,

That he may bring forth ⁱfood from the earth,

¹⁵And ^jwine that makes glad the heart of man,

Oil to make his face shine,

And bread which strengthens man’s heart.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord are full of sap,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

¹⁷Where the birds make their nests;

The stork has her home in the fir trees.

¹⁸The high hills are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the ^krock ⁴badgers.

^19lHe appointed the moon for seasons;

The ^msun knows its going down.

²⁰ⁿYou make darkness, and it is night,

In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.

^21oThe young lions roar after their prey,

And seek their food from God.

²²When the sun rises, they gather together

And lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to ^phis work

And to his labor until the evening.

^24qO Lord, how manifold are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all.

The earth is full of Your ^rpossessions—

²⁵This great and wide sea,

In which are innumerable teeming things,

Living things both small and great.

²⁶There the ships sail about;

There is that ^sLeviathan ⁵

Which You have ⁶made to play there.

^27tThese all wait for You,

That You may give them their food in due season.

²⁸What You give them they gather in;

You open Your hand, they are filled with good.

²⁹You hide Your face, they are troubled;

^uYou take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

^30vYou send forth Your Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the Lord endure forever;

May the Lord ^wrejoice in His works.

³²He looks on the earth, and it ^xtrembles;

^yHe touches the hills, and they smoke.

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

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

³⁴May my ^ameditation be sweet to Him;

I will be glad in the Lord.

³⁵May ^bsinners be consumed from the earth,

And the wicked be no more.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

⁷Praise the Lord!

Psalm 105

¹Oh, ^agive thanks to the Lord!

Call upon His name;

^bMake known His deeds among the peoples!

²Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;

^cTalk of all His wondrous works!

³Glory in His holy name;

Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!

⁴Seek the Lord and His strength;

^dSeek His face evermore!

^5eRemember His marvelous works which He has done,

His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,

⁶O seed of Abraham His servant,

You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

⁷He is the Lord our God;

^fHis judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He ^gremembers His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

^9hThe covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, ⁱ“To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the allotment of your inheritance,”

^12jWhen they were few in number,

Indeed very few, ^kand strangers in it.

¹³When they went from one nation to another,

From one kingdom to another people,

^14lHe permitted no one to do them wrong;

Yes, ^mHe rebuked kings for their sakes,

¹⁵Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶Moreover ⁿHe called for a famine in the land;

He destroyed all the ^oprovision of bread.

^17pHe sent a man before them—

Joseph—who ^qwas sold as a slave.

^18rThey hurt his feet with fetters,

¹He was laid in irons.

¹⁹Until the time that his word came to pass,

^sThe word of the Lord tested him.

^20tThe king sent and released him,

The ruler of the people let him go free.

^21uHe made him lord of his house,

And ruler of all his possessions,

²²To ²bind his princes at his pleasure,

And teach his elders wisdom.

^23vIsrael also came into Egypt,

And Jacob dwelt ^win the land of Ham.

^24xHe increased His people greatly,

And made them stronger than their enemies.

^25yHe turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

^26zHe sent Moses His servant,

And Aaron whom He had chosen.

²⁷They ^aperformed His signs among them,

And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His word.

^29bHe turned their waters into blood,

And killed their fish.

^30cTheir land abounded with frogs,

Even in the chambers of their kings.

^31dHe spoke, and there came swarms of flies,

And lice in all their territory.

^32eHe gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

^33fHe struck their vines also, and their fig trees,

And splintered the trees of their territory.

^34gHe spoke, and locusts came,

Young locusts without number,

³⁵And ate up all the vegetation in their land,

And devoured the fruit of their ground.

^36hHe also ³destroyed all the firstborn in their land,

ⁱThe first of all their strength.

^37jHe also brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was none feeble among His tribes.

^38kEgypt was glad when they departed,

For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

^39lHe spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to give light in the night.

^40mThe people asked, and He brought quail,

And ⁿsatisfied them with the bread of heaven.

^41oHe opened the rock, and water gushed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He remembered ^pHis holy promise,

And Abraham His servant.

⁴³He brought out His people with joy,

His chosen ones with ⁴gladness.

^44qHe gave them the lands of the ⁵Gentiles,

And they inherited the labor of the nations,

^45rThat they might observe His statutes

And keep His laws.

⁶Praise the Lord!