Psalms 104 · Clearspring

How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

¹Bless the LORD, my soul. The LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honour and majesty.+ ²He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.+ ³He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.+ ⁴He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.+ ⁵He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.+ ⁶You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.+ ⁷At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.+ ⁸The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.+ ⁹You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.+ ¹⁰He sends springs into the valleys. They run amongst the mountains.+ ¹¹They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.+ ¹²The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing amongst the branches.+ ¹³He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.+ ¹⁴He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:+ ¹⁵wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.+ ¹⁶The LORD’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,+ ¹⁷where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.+ ¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.+ ¹⁹He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.+ ²⁰You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.+ ²¹The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.+ ²²The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.+ ²³Man goes out to his work, to his labour until the evening.+ ²⁴The LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.+ ²⁵There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.+ ²⁶There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.+ ²⁷These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.+ ²⁸You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.+ ²⁹You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.+ ³⁰You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.+ ³¹Let the LORD’s glory endure forever. Let the LORD rejoice in his works.+ ³²He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.+ ³³I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.+ ³⁴Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.+ ³⁵Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD!+

How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

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