Psalm 104:1-35
104 Bless Jehovah, O my soul.+O Jehovah my God, you have proved very great.+With dignity and splendor you have clothed+ yourself,
2 Enwrapping yourself with light as with a garment,+Stretching out the heavens like a tent cloth,+
3 The One building his upper chambers with beams in the very waters,+Making the clouds his chariot,+Walking upon the wings of the wind,+
4 Making his angels spirits,*+His ministers a devouring fire.+
5 He has founded the earth upon its established places;+It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.+
6 With a watery deep* just like a garment you covered it.+The waters were standing above the very mountains.+
7 At your rebuke they began to flee;+At the sound of your thunder they were sent running in panic—
8 Mountains proceeded to ascend,+Valley plains proceeded to descend—To the place that you have founded for them.
9 A boundary you set, beyond which they should not pass,+That they should not again cover the earth.+
10 He is sending springs into the torrent valleys;+Between the mountains they keep going on.
11 They continually give drink to all the wild beasts of the open field;+The zebras+ regularly quench their thirst.
12 Above them roost the flying creatures of the heavens;+From among the thick foliage they keep giving forth sound.+
13 He is watering the mountains from his upper chambers.+With the fruitage* of your works the earth is satisfied.+
14 He is making green grass sprout for the beasts,+And vegetation for the service of mankind,*+To cause food* to go forth from the earth,+
15 And wine that makes the heart of mortal man* rejoice,+To make the face shine with oil,+And bread that sustains the very heart of mortal man.+
16 The trees of Jehovah are satisfied,The cedars of Lebʹa·non that he planted,+
17 Where the birds themselves make nests.+As for the stork, the juniper trees are its house.+
18 The high mountains+ are for the mountain goats;+The crags are a refuge for the rock badgers.+
19 He has made the moon for appointed times;+The sun itself knows well where it sets.+
20 You cause darkness, that it may become night;+In it all the wild animals of the forest move forth.
21 The maned young lions are roaring for the prey+And for seeking their food from God* himself.+
22 The sun begins to shine+—they withdrawAnd they lie down in their own hiding places.*
23 Man* goes forth to his activity+And to his service until evening.+
24 How many your works are, O Jehovah!+All of them in wisdom you have made.+The earth is full of your productions.+
25 As for this sea so great and wide,*+There there are moving things without number,+Living creatures, small as well as great.+
26 There the ships go;+As for Le·viʹa·than,*+ him you have formed to play about in it.+
27 All of them—for you they keep waiting+To give [them] their food in its season.+
28 What you give them they pick up.+You open your hand—they get satisfied with good things.+
29 If you conceal your face, they get disturbed.+If you take away their spirit,* they expire,+And back to their dust they go.+
30 If you send forth your spirit, they are created;+And you make the face of the ground new.
31 The glory of Jehovah will prove to be to time indefinite.+Jehovah will rejoice in his works.+
32 He is looking at the earth, and it trembles;+He touches the mountains, and they smoke.+
33 I will sing to Jehovah throughout my life;+I will make melody to my God as long as I am.+
34 Let my musing about him be pleasurable.+I, for my part, shall rejoice in Jehovah.+
35 The sinners will be finished off from the earth;+And as for the wicked, they will be no longer.+Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jah,* YOU people!*+
Footnotes
^ Or, “winds.” Heb., ru·chohthʹ, pl. Vs 3 contains “wind” (ruʹach), sing.
^ Or, “With the moisture,” by a correction of M.
^ Lit., “the earthling man.” Heb., ha·ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ Lit., “bread.”
^ “Mortal man.” Heb., ʼenohshʹ.
^ “From God.” Heb., me·ʼElʹ.
^ Or, “dwellings.”
^ Or, “Earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ Lit., “wide on both sides (hands),” that is, spacious.
^ “Leviathan.” Heb., liw·ya·thanʹ; LXXVg, “the dragon (serpent).”
^ “Their spirit (breath).” Heb., ru·chamʹ; Gr., pneuʹma; Lat., spiʹri·tum.
^ “Jah.” Heb., Yah, an abbreviated form of the divine name. Compare 68:4 ftn.
^ “Praise Jah, you people!” Heb., Ha·lelu-Yahʹ; Gr., Al·le·louʹi·a; Lat., Al·le·luʹia. See App 1D.
