Psalms 104

1Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

1Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

2You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

2Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

3The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

4Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

5He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

5Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

6Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

6O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

7At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

7He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

8He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

9You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

9Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

10You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

10And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

11They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

11Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

12When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

13He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

13And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

14He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

15Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

16The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

16And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

17Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

17He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

18The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

18They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

19He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

19Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

20When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

20The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

21He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

22The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

22That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

23Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

23And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

24O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

24And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

25There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

25He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

26There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

26He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

27All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

27He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

28They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

28He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

29If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

29He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

30If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

30Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

31Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:

31He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

32At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.

32He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

33I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

33And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

34Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

34He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

35Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

35And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

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36And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.

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37And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

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38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

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39He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

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40They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

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41He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

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42Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

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43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

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44And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

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45That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.