Psalms 104:1-13 ▼

1 Praise the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are magnificent. You are robed in splendor and majesty.

2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

4 He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant.

5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.

6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off--

8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down--to the place you appointed for them.

9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

10 He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.