Old Testament · Psalms

Psalms 104

How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

1Bless the LORD, O my soul^a. The LORD my God, You are very great; with splendor and majesty You have clothed Yourself.
2Wrapping Yourself with light like a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain;
3Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds His chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind^b;
4Who makes His messengers spirits, His ministers a flaming fire.
5He founded the earth upon its foundations; it shall not be moved forever and ever.
6The deep — like a garment You covered it; the waters stood above the mountains.
7From Your rebuke they flee, from the voice of Your thunder they hasten away.
8They go up the mountains, they go down the valleys, to the place which You founded for them.
9A boundary You set, they shall not pass over, they shall not return to cover the earth.
10Who sends forth springs into the streams; between the mountains they go.
11They give drink to every living thing^c of the field; the wild asses break their thirst.
12Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; from among the branches they give voice.
13Watering the mountains from His upper chambers; from the fruit of Your works the earth is satisfied.
14Causing grass to sprout for the cattle, and herb for the labor^d of the man^e, to bring forth bread from the earth;
15And wine that gladdens the heart of man, to make the face shine from oil, and bread that sustains the heart of man.
16The trees of the LORD are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted;
17Where the birds make nests; the stork — the fir trees are her house.
18The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
19He made the moon for appointed times (moedim); the sun knows its going down.
20You set darkness and it becomes night, in which every living thing of the forest creeps.
21The young lions roar for prey, and to seek their food from God.
22The sun rises, they are gathered, and in their dens they crouch.
23Man goes out to his work, and to his labor until evening.
24How many are Your works, the LORD! In wisdom You made them all; the earth is full of Your possessions.
25This sea, great and broad of hands, there are creeping things and no number, living creatures small with great.
26There ships go; Leviathan, this one You formed to play in it.
27All of them wait for You, to give their food in its time.
28You give to them, they gather; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
29You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire and to their dust^f they return.
30You send forth Your spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the ground^g.
31May the glory of the LORD be forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
32Who looks at the earth and it trembles; He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33I will sing to the LORD in my life; I will sing praise to my God while I yet am.
34Let my meditation be sweet upon Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.
35Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise Yah.