Psalms 104
104
Psalm 104
1Praise the Lord, my soul!
O Lord my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
2You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe.
You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.
3You lay the beams of your home in the water.
You use the clouds for your chariot.
You move on the wings of the wind.
4You make your angels winds
and your servants flames of fire.
5You set the earth on its foundations
so that it can never be shaken.
6You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe.
Water stood above the mountains
7and fled because of your threat.
Water ran away at the sound of your thunder.
8The mountains rose and the valleys sank
to the place you appointed for them.
9Water cannot cross the boundary you set
and cannot come back to cover the earth.
10You make water gush from springs into valleys.
It flows between the mountains.
11Every wild animal drinks ⌞from them⌟.
Wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12The birds live by the streams.
They sing among the branches.
13You water the mountains from your home above.
You fill the earth with the fruits of your labors.
14You make grass grow for cattle
and make vegetables for humans to use
in order to get food from the ground.
15You make wine to cheer human hearts,
olive oil to make faces shine,
and bread to strengthen human hearts.
16The Lord’s trees, the cedars in Lebanon which he planted,
drink their fill.
17Birds build their nests in them.
Storks make their homes in fir trees.
18The high mountains are for wild goats.
The rocks are a refuge for badgers.
19He created the moon, which marks the seasons,
and the sun, which knows when to set.
20He brings darkness, and it is nighttime,
when all the wild animals in the forest come out.
21The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.
22When the sun rises,
they gather and lie down in their dens.
23Then people go to do their work,
to do their tasks until evening.
24What a large number of things you have made, O Lord!
You made them all by wisdom.
The earth is filled with your creatures.
25The sea is so big and wide with countless creatures,
living things both large and small.
26Ships sail on it,
and Leviathan, which you made, plays in it.
27All of them look to you to give them their food at the right time.
28You give it to them, and they gather it up.
You open your hand, and they are filled with blessings.
29You hide your face, and they are terrified.
You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.
30You send out your Spirit, and they are created.
You renew the face of the earth.
31May the glory of the Lord endure forever.
May the Lord find joy in what he has made.
32He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
33I will sing to the Lord throughout my life.
I will make music to praise my God as long as I live.
34May my thoughts be pleasing to him.
I will find joy in the Lord.
35May sinners vanish from the world.
May there no longer be any wicked people.
Praise the Lord, my soul!
Hallelujah!
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Psalms 104
104
PSALM 104.
1Alleluia.
Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
2Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.
3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
4Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
5Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
6O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
7He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
9Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:
10And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:
11Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.
12When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
13And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
14He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.
15Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
16And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
17He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
18They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,
19until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.
20The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.
21He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.
22That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.
23And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
24And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,
25He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.
26He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
27He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
28He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.
29He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
30Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.
31He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.
32He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.
33And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.
34He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.
35And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.
36And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
37And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.
38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.
39He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.
40They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
41He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.
42Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
44And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:
45That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.
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