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The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 104 -

How many are your works

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I tell myself that I should praise Yahweh. Yahweh, my God, you are very great! As a king has on his royal robes, you have honor and majesty all around you!
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You created light and you hide behind it. You spread out the whole sky as someone sets up a tent.
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You built your palace on the clouds. You made the clouds to be like chariots to carry you.
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You caused the winds to be like your messengers, and flames of fire to be like your servants.
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You placed the world firmly on its foundation so that it can never be moved.
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Later, you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket; and the water covered the mountains.
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But when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded; your voice spoke like thunder, and then the waters rushed away.
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Mountains rose up from the water, and the valleys sank down to the levels that you had determined for them.
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Then you set a boundary for the oceans, a boundary that they cannot cross; their water will never again cover the whole earth.
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You make springs to pour water into ravines; their water flows down between the mountains.
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Those streams provide water for all the animals to drink; the wild donkeys drink the water and are no longer thirsty.
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Birds make their nests alongside the streams, and they sing among the branches of the trees.
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From the heavens you send rain down on the mountains, and you fill the earth with many good things that you create.
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You make grass to grow for the cattle to eat, and you make plants to grow for people. In that way, animals and people get their food from what grows in the soil.
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We get grapes to make wine to drink and to make us cheerful; we get olives to make our face shine, and we get grain to make bread to give us strength.
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Yahweh, you send plenty of rain to water your trees, the cedar trees that you planted in Lebanon.
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Birds make their nests in those trees, and storks make their nests in pine trees.
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High up in the mountains the wild goats live, and hyraxes live in the rocks.
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Yahweh, you made the moon to indicate the times for our festivals, and you made the sun that knows when to go down.
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You bring darkness, and it becomes night when all the animals in the forest prowl around looking for food.
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At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey, but they depend on you to give them food.
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At dawn, they go back to their dens and lie down.
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During the daytime, people go to their work; they work until it is evening.
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Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things! You were very wise as you made them all. The earth is full of the creatures that you made.
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We see the ocean which is very vast! It is full of many kinds of living creatures, big ones and little ones.
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We see the ships which sail along! We see the huge sea monster which you made to splash around in the sea.
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All of these creatures depend on you to give them the food that they need.
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When you give them the food that they need, they gather it. You give them what you have in your hand, and they eat it and are satisfied.
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But if you refuse to give food to them, they become terrified. When you cause them to stop breathing, they die; their bodies decay and become soil again.
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When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe, they start to live; You give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
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May the glory of Yahweh last forever. May he rejoice about all the things that he has created.
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He makes the earth shake just by looking at it! By merely touching the mountains he makes them pour out fire and smoke!
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I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will praise my God until the day that I die.
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May Yahweh be pleased by all these things that I have thought about him because I rejoice about knowing him.
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However, may sinners disappear from the earth; may there be no more wicked people! But as for me, I will praise Yahweh! Praise him!

How many are your works

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

Footnotes

(a)104:4 or, angels