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Psalms 104

¹Let all that I am praise the Lord. O Lord my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty.

²You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

³you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.

⁴The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants.

⁵You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.

⁶You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

⁷At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.

⁸Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.

⁹Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs pour water into the ravines, so streams gush down from the mountains.

¹¹They provide water for all the animals, and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees.

¹³You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—

¹⁵wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord are well cared for— the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.

¹⁸High in the mountains live the wild goats, and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.

¹⁹You made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You send the darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

²¹Then the young lions roar for their prey, stalking the food provided by God.

²²At dawn they slink back into their dens to rest.

²³Then people go off to their work, where they labor until evening.

²⁴O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.

²⁶See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.

²⁷They all depend on you to give them food as they need it.

²⁸When you supply it, they gather it. You open your hand to feed them, and they are richly satisfied.

²⁹But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.

³⁰When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the Lord continue forever! The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!

³²The earth trembles at his glance; the mountains smoke at his touch.

³³I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will praise my God to my last breath!

³⁴May all my thoughts be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

³⁵Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth; let the wicked disappear forever. Let all that I am praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!

Psalms 104 (NLT)

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