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,

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.