Psalm 104–105

¹Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on.

²Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

³Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

⁴Making His messengers—the winds, His ministers—the flaming fire.

⁵He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

⁶The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

⁷From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

⁸They go up hills—they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.

⁹A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

¹⁰Who is sending forth fountains in valleys, Between hills they go on.

¹¹They water every beast of the field, Wild asses break their thirst.

¹²By them the fowl of the heavens doth dwell, From between the branches They give forth the voice.

¹³Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

¹⁴Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

¹⁵And wine—it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread—the heart of man it supporteth.

¹⁶Satisfied are the trees of Jehovah, Cedars of Lebanon that He hath planted,

¹⁷Where birds do make nests, The stork—the firs are her house.

¹⁸The high hills are for wild goats, Rocks are a refuge for conies,

¹⁹He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.

²⁰Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

²¹The young lions are roaring for prey, And to seek from God their food.

²²The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.

²³Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service—till evening.

²⁴How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

²⁵This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things—innumerable, Living creatures—small with great.

²⁶There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

²⁷All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season.

²⁸Thou dost give to them—they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand—they are satisfied with good.

²⁹Thou hidest Thy face—they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit—they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

³⁰Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

³¹The honour of Jehovah is to the age, Jehovah rejoiceth in His works,

³²Who is looking to earth, and it trembleth, He cometh against hills, and they smoke.

³³I sing to Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

³⁴Sweet is my meditation on Him, I—I do rejoice in Jehovah.

³⁵Consumed are sinners from the earth, And the wicked are no more. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah!

Psalm 105

¹Give ye thanks to Jehovah—call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.

²Sing ye to Him—sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.

³Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.

⁴Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.

⁵Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

⁶O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

⁷He is Jehovah our God, In all the earth are His judgments.

⁸He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel—a covenant age-during,

¹¹Saying, ‘To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,’

¹²In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

¹³And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

¹⁴He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.

¹⁵‘Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.’

¹⁶And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

¹⁷He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.

¹⁸They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

¹⁹Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.

²⁰The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.

²¹He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.

²²To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And his elders he maketh wise.

²³And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

²⁶He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.

²⁷They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

²⁹He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.

³⁰Teemed hath their land with frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings.

³¹He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

³²He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire is in their land.

³³And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.

³⁴He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm—innumerable,

³⁵And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

³⁷And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.

³⁸Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.

³⁹He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

⁴⁰They have asked, and He bringeth quails, And with bread of heaven satisfieth them.

⁴¹He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places—a river.

⁴²For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,

⁴³And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

⁴⁴And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,

⁴⁵That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

Psalm 106