Psalms 104
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Psalm 104
God the Creator and Provider
1 #
Ps 103.1
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
O Lord my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
2 #
Isa 40.22; Dan 7.9 wrapped in light as with a garment.
You stretch out the heavens like a tent;
3 #
Ps 18.10; Isa 19.1; Am 9.6 you set the beams of your#104.3 Heb his chambers on the waters;
you make the clouds your#104.3 Heb his chariot;
you ride on the wings of the wind;
4 #
Heb 1.7
you make the winds your#104.4 Heb his messengers,
fire and flame your#104.4 Heb his ministers.
5 #
Job 26.7; Ps 24.2 You set the earth on its foundations,
so that it shall never be shaken.
6 #
Gen 7.19
You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7At your rebuke they flee;
at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
8 #
Ps 33.7
They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
to the place that you appointed for them.
9 #
Job 38.10, 11; Jer 5.22 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.
10 #
Ps 107.35
You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
they flow between the hills,
11 #
Job 39.5
giving drink to every wild animal;
the wild asses quench their thirst.
12 #
Mt 8.20
By the streams#104.12 Heb By them the birds of the air have their habitation;
they sing among the branches.
13 #
Ps 65.9; 147.8 From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
14 #
Gen 1.29; Job 28.5; 38.27; Ps 147.8 You cause the grass to grow for the cattle
and plants for people to cultivate,
to bring forth food from the earth
15 #
Judg 9.13; Ps 23.5 and wine to gladden the human heart,
oil to make the face shine
and bread to strengthen the human heart.
16The trees of the field#104.16 Gk: Heb trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
17In them the birds build their nests;
the stork has its home in the fir trees.
18 #
Prov 30.26
The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the rocks are a refuge for the coneys.
19 #
Gen 1.14
You have made the moon to mark the seasons;
the sun knows its time for setting.
20 #
Isa 45.7
You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.
21 #
Job 38.39
The young lions roar for their prey,
seeking their food from God.
22When the sun rises, they withdraw
and lie down in their dens.
23 #
Gen 3.19
People go out to their work
and to their labor until the evening.
24 #
Ps 40.5; 65.9; Prov 3.19 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25There is the sea, great and wide;
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great.
26 #
Job 41.1; Ps 107.23 There go the ships
and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
27 #
Ps 136.25; 145.15 These all look to you
to give them their food in due season;
28when you give to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 #
Job 34.14; Ps 146.4; Eccl 12.7 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.
30 #
Isa 32.15; Ezek 37.9 When you send forth your spirit,#104.30 Or your breath they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
31 #
Gen 1.31
May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works—
32 #
Ps 97.4, 5; 144.5 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 #
Ps 63.4; 146.2 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34May my meditation be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
35 #
v 1
; Ps 37.10; 59.13Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
and let the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!
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