Psalms Chapter 104

¹ Bless Yahveh, everything that I am!

      Yahveh my God, you’re so great;

      you’re dressed in splendor and majesty.

² You cover yourself with light as with a robe;

      you’ve stretched out the sky like a tent.

³ You laid the beams for your rooms on the water;

      you make the clouds your chariot

      and walk on the wind.

⁴ You make the winds your messengers

      and blazing fire your ministers.                                       

Ps 104:1-4

⁵ You built the earth on foundations

      so it would never shift.

⁶ You covered it with the ocean like a robe

      deeper than the mountains.

⁷ At your rebuke it receded;

      at the sound of your thunder, it withdrew.

⁸ The mountains rose up; the valleys sank down

      to the level you determined for them to have.

⁹ You set a boundary the water couldn’t cross

      so it wouldn’t flow back over the earth again.                

Ps 104:5-9

¹⁰ You make springs in the valleys

      so creeks flow between the mountains.

¹¹ They water the animals in the countryside

      and quench the thirst of wild donkeys.

¹² Birds live beside them

      and chirp in the trees.

¹³ You water the mountains from your home above;

      your work provides for the earth.                                    

Ps 104:10-13

¹⁴ You make grass grow for the livestock

      and crops from people’s labor

      so they could produce food from the ground

            ¹⁵ and wine to cheer them up,

      so they could make their faces shine with oil

            and grow food to sustain them.

¹⁶ Yahveh’s trees drink their fill,

      Lebanon’s cedars that he planted,

      ¹⁷ where birds build their nests

      and storks make roosts in fir trees.                                  

Ps 104:14-17

¹⁸ High mountains are for wild goats,

      and rocks provide cover for badgers.

¹⁹ You made the moon to mark the seasons;

      the sun knows where to set.

²⁰ You send darkness, and it becomes night;

      wild animals prowl around in it.

²¹ Young lions roar after their prey

      and seek their food from God.

²² When the sun comes up,

      they go back and lie down in their dens,

         ²³and people go out to work till evening.                        

Ps 104:18-23

²⁴ Yahveh, how many things you’ve done!

      you’ve done them all with wisdom

      and filled the earth with your creations.

²⁵ Yonder is the ocean, big and wide;

      it teems with schools of fish without number,

      marine life large and small.

²⁶ Ships move along on it,

      Leviathan too, which you formed to play in it.               

Ps 104:24-26

²⁷ They all depend on you

      to feed them when it’s time.

²⁸ You give them food, and they gather it;

         you open your hand and satisfy them with good.

²⁹ If you hide, they’re scared;

      you take away their breath, and they die.

³⁰ You send out your breath, and they’re created;

      you renew the surface of the ground.                              

Ps 104:27-30

³¹ Let Yahveh’s honor endure forever;

      let him delight in things he’s made.

³² The world trembles at his look;

      the mountains smoke at his touch.

³³ I’ll sing to Yahveh as long as I live;

      I’ll sing praise to my God as long as I’m here.

³⁴ May my meditations please him;

         I’ll be happy in him.

³⁵ Let sinners vanish from the earth;

            let the wicked cease to exist.

Bless Yahveh, everything that I am!

                                                Hallelujah!                            

Ps 104:31-35