Psalms 104

How many are your works

Let all that I am praise the Lord. O Lord my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty.a ²You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;b 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.c ⁵You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.d 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.e

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—f ¹⁵wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength.g

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.

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.h

²⁵Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. ²⁶See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, 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, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.i

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!j

³⁴May all my thoughts be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.k 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!