Psalm 104

²²Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

³Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

¹⁷He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.

⁴And I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

¹The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty; the Lord has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

²²He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

¹²It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

⁹As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.

⁵And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

¹This is the burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. Thus declares the Lord, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

²There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

⁶He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is His name.

¹¹He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

¹⁰He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

¹This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.

³The Lord is slow to anger and great in power; the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

⁹If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

⁷Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”

¹¹As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

¹⁷Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

¹⁴Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

¹³In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

²For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁰Declare among the nations: “The Lord reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

⁶He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

¹⁹Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

⁵But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

²Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

³And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

¹⁵The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

³⁹Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

¹But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

²⁸when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

³The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

⁴the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

⁵And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

⁷He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

¹⁰when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

¹¹and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

¹¹And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

²²Do you not fear Me?” declares the Lord. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

⁹“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

¹⁰He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

⁷He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

¹⁸I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

³⁵He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.

⁷The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

¹⁶You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁵Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

⁶I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

¹³He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

¹¹I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

¹⁰wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,

⁹He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

¹⁷where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

²⁰Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

³Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.

⁸who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

¹³When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

²²Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O Lord our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

¹¹But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

³⁷Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

²⁵Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

²⁶to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

²⁵He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.

⁸who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

⁹He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

⁵Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

³Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

¹⁵The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

¹⁶You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

¹⁹A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

⁷Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

¹³But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

¹²They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

¹⁸Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

⁶They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the Lord has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

⁵The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

²to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

²³I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

¹²The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

¹⁹the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

⁶All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.

³²Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

⁴Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

⁷Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the Lord.

²⁶the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

¹“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

²So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

⁵The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

⁷But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

¹⁴And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

¹⁵And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

³⁵Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of Hosts is His name:

⁷He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.

⁸the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.

³When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

¹²In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

⁶it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

⁷I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the Lord, do all these things.

¹⁶The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

⁴And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

⁵God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

²²As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

¹⁰for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹⁰even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

²⁰Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

³⁹Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

¹⁰Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

²²Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

²and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

³She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

⁴¹Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

⁸The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

¹³Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

¹⁴When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

¹⁷Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

²⁸He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

¹²The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

¹⁶That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

⁸nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

⁹Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

¹²The Lord made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹⁰for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

¹⁰His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

⁴In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

⁵The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

²⁸God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

²⁰And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

²¹So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

⁵But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

¹Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

²³Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

¹In that day the Lord will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

¹⁴You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

¹³Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.

⁹The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

¹“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

²Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

²⁴Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

²⁵Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

²⁵He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.

⁹He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

⁴¹Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

³¹For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

¹⁵The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

¹⁶You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁶You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁷before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁴If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

¹⁵all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

⁴When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

⁷O Lord, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

³You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

⁴The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁵And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

¹⁷For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

⁹Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord God says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”

¹³By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

⁶By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

³¹And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

¹⁸And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁴¹Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

²¹to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁷The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

¹⁸Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the Lord had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

⁵Part Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

⁴His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

⁵The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

¹⁰The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

⁸Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

⁵The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.

⁶Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

⁴So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

²I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹⁷Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

¹⁸yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

¹⁵I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

¹²⁷Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

²I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

²For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

²²Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

²As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

³⁸But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.