PSALMS 104-105

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The LORD’S Care over All His Works.104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD my God, You are very great;

You are clothed with splendor and majesty,

2 Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak,

Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.

3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;

He makes the clouds His chariot;

He walks upon the wings of the wind;

4 He makes the winds His messengers,

Flaming fire His ministers.

5 He established the earth upon its foundations,

So that it will not totter forever and ever.

6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;

The waters were standing above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke they fled,

At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

8 The mountains rose; the valleys sank down

To the place which You established for them.

9 You set a boundary that they may not pass over,

So that they will not return to cover the earth.

10 He sends forth springs in the valleys;

They flow between the mountains;

11 They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;

They lift up their voices among the branches.

13 He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the labor of man,

So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

15 And wine which makes man’s heart glad,

So that he may make his face glisten with oil,

And food which sustains man’s heart.

16 The trees of the LORD drink their fill,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

17 Where the birds build their nests,

And the stork, whose home is the fir trees.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim.

19 He made the moon for the seasons;

The sun knows the place of its setting.

20 You appoint darkness and it becomes night,

In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

21 The young lions roar after their prey

And seek their food from God.

22 When the sun rises they withdraw

And lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes forth to his work

And to his labor until evening.

24 O LORD, how many are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all;

The earth is full of Your possessions.

25 There is the sea, great and broad,

In which are swarms without number,

Animals both small and great.

26 There the ships move along,

And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

27 They all wait for You

To give them their food in due season.

28 You give to them, they gather it up;

You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.

29 You hide Your face, they are dismayed;

You take away their spirit, they expire

And return to their dust.

30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the ground.

31 Let the glory of the LORD endure forever;

Let the LORD be glad in His works;

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;

He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34 Let my meditation be pleasing to Him;

As for me, I shall be glad in the LORD.

35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth

And let the wicked be no more.

Bless the LORD, O my soul.

Praise the LORD!

The LORD’S Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.105:1 Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the peoples.

2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

Speak of all His wonders.

3 Glory in His holy name;

Let the heart of those who seek the LORD be glad.

4 Seek the LORD and His strength;

Seek His face continually.

5 Remember His wonders which He has done,

His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

6 O seed of Abraham, His servant,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

7 He is the LORD our God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

8 He has remembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

9 The covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

10 Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11 Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the portion of your inheritance,”

12 When they were only a few men in number,

Very few, and strangers in it.

13 And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

14 He permitted no man to oppress them,

And He reproved kings for their sakes:

15 “Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

16 And He called for a famine upon the land;

He broke the whole staff of bread.

17 He sent a man before them,

Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18 They afflicted his feet with fetters,

He himself was laid in irons;

19 Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of the LORD tested him.

20 The king sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

21 He made him lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

22 To imprison his princes at will,

That he might teach his elders wisdom.

23 Israel also came into Egypt;

Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24 And He caused His people to be very fruitful,

And made them stronger than their adversaries.

25 He turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

26 He sent Moses His servant,

And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They performed His wondrous acts among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His words.

29 He turned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

30 Their land swarmed with frogs

Even in the chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies

And gnats in all their territory.

32 He gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

33 He struck down their vines also and their fig trees,

And shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke, and locusts came,

And young locusts, even without number,

35 And ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ate up the fruit of their ground.

36 He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,

The first fruits of all their vigor.

37 Then He brought them out with silver and gold,

And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed,

For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to illumine by night.

40 They asked, and He brought quail,

And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock and water flowed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For He remembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

43 And He brought forth His people with joy,

His chosen ones with a joyful shout.

44 He gave them also the lands of the nations,

That they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

45 So that they might keep His statutes

And observe His laws,

Praise the LORD!

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