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Psalm 104

¹Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

²The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

³and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

⁴He makes winds his messengers, [186] flames of fire his servants.

⁵He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

⁶You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

⁸they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.

⁹You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.

¹⁰He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains.

¹¹They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

¹³He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.

¹⁴He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate — bringing forth food from the earth:

¹⁵wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the junipers.

¹⁸The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.

²⁰You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.

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

²²The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens.

²³Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.

²⁴How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number — living things both large and small.

²⁶There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

²⁷All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

²⁹When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

³⁰When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works —

³²he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD. [187]