Psalm 104

¹Let all that I am praise the Lord.

O Lord my God, how great you are!

You are robed with honor and majesty.

²You are dressed in a robe of light.

You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

³you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.

You make the clouds your chariot;

you ride upon the wings of the wind.

⁴The winds are your messengers;

flames of fire are your servants.^a

⁵You placed the world on its foundation

so it would never be moved.

⁶You clothed the earth with floods of water,

water that covered even the mountains.

⁷At your command, the water fled;

at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.

⁸Mountains rose and valleys sank

to the levels you decreed.

⁹Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,

so they would never again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs pour water into the ravines,

so streams gush down from the mountains.

¹¹They provide water for all the animals,

and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds nest beside the streams

and sing among the branches of the trees.

¹³You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,

and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴You cause grass to grow for the livestock

and plants for people to use.

You allow them to produce food from the earth—

¹⁵wine to make them glad,

olive oil to soothe their skin,

and bread to give them strength.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord are well cared for—

the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests,

and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.

¹⁸High in the mountains live the wild goats,

and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.^b

¹⁹You made the moon to mark the seasons,

and the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You send the darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the forest animals prowl about.

²¹Then the young lions roar for their prey,

stalking the food provided by God.

²²At dawn they slink back

into their dens to rest.

²³Then people go off to their work,

where they labor until evening.

²⁴O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!

In wisdom you have made them all.

The earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the ocean, vast and wide,

teeming with life of every kind,

both large and small.

²⁶See the ships sailing along,

and Leviathan,^c which you made to play in the sea.

²⁷They all depend on you

to give them food as they need it.

²⁸When you supply it, they gather it.

You open your hand to feed them,

and they are richly satisfied.

²⁹But if you turn away from them, they panic.

When you take away their breath,

they die and turn again to dust.

³⁰When you give them your breath,^d life is created,

and you renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the Lord continue forever!

The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!

³²The earth trembles at his glance;

the mountains smoke at his touch.

³³I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.

I will praise my God to my last breath!

³⁴May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,

for I rejoice in the Lord.

³⁵Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;

let the wicked disappear forever.

Let all that I am praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord!