Psalm 104:1–30

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.