Psalms 104:1-30 ▼

1 O my soul, bless YHWH! O YHWH my God, You are very great; with honor and majesty You are clothed.

2 Covering Himself with light as a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain,

3 the One laying the beams in the waters of His upper chambers, the One making the clouds His chariot, the One walking on the wings of the wind,

4 making the winds His messengers, His servants flaming fire.

5 He set the earth upon its foundations; it should not be shaken forever and ever.

6 The deep, as with a garment You covered it; upon the mountains the waters were standing.

7 From Your rebuke they fled; from the voice of Your thunder they hurried away.

8 Upon the mountains, the valleys sank down, to the place that You established for them.

9 You have set a boundary that they may not cross over; they may never return to cover the earth.

10 He sends the springs into the valleys; they flow between the hills.

11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys break their thirst.

12 Nearby them the birds of the heavens are dwelling; from between the branches they give forth a voice.

13 Watering the hills from His upper chambers; with the fruit of Your works the earth is satisfied—

14 causing the grass to sprout for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, to bring forth food from the earth,

15 and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face shine from oil, and bread supports the heart of man.

16 The trees of YHWH are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

17 where in the birds make their nests; the stork—the cypresses are her house.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the crags a refuge for the rock badgers.

19 He made the moon for appointed times; the sun knows its entrance.

20 You make darkness, and it becomes night; in it all the living things of the forest creep about.

21 The young lions roar for the prey and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises, they are gathered; and in their dens they stretch out.

23 Man goes out to his work, and to his labor until the evening.

24 How many are Your works, O YHWH! All of them You have made in wisdom; the earth is full of Your creatures.

25 This is the sea, great and wide—in it are teeming things, and without number, living things small with the great.

26 There the ships go about, and Leviathan, which You formed to play in it.

27 All of them look to You, to give their food, in its season.

28 You give to them, and they gather in; You open Your hand, and they are satisfied with good.

29 You hide Your face—they are troubled; You gather their spirit—they die, and to their dust they return.

30 You send forth Your Spirit—they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.