✧1Bless the LORD, my soul. The LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. ✧2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. ✧3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. ✧4He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire. ✧5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. ✧6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. ✧7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. ✧8The 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.
✧10He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
✧11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
✧12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
✧13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
✧14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
✧15wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
✧16The LORD’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,
✧17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
✧18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
✧19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
✧20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
✧21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
✧22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.
✧23Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
✧24LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
✧25There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.
✧26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
✧27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.
✧28You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
✧29You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
✧30You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
✧31Let the LORD’s glory endure forever. Let the LORD rejoice in his works.
✧32He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
✧33I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
✧34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.
✧35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD!