Psalm 104:10-25

Common English Bible

¹⁰ You put gushing springs into dry riverbeds.
    They flow between the mountains,
¹¹         providing water for every wild animal—
        the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² Overhead, the birds in the sky make their home,
    chirping loudly in the trees.
¹³ From your lofty house, you water the mountains.
    The earth is filled full by the fruit of what you’ve done.
¹⁴ You make grass grow for cattle;
    you make plants for human farming
        in order to get food from the ground,
¹⁵         and wine, which cheers people’s hearts,
        along with oil, which makes the face shine,
        and bread, which sustains the human heart.
¹⁶ The Lord’s trees are well watered—
    the cedars of Lebanon, which God planted,
¹⁷     where the birds make their nests,
    where the stork has a home in the cypresses.
¹⁸ The high mountains belong to the mountain goats;
    the ridges are the refuge of badgers.
¹⁹ God made the moon for the seasons,
    and the sun too, which knows when to set.
²⁰ You bring on the darkness and it is night,
    when every forest animal prowls.
²¹ The young lions roar for their prey,
    seeking their food from God.
²² When the sun rises, they gather together
    and lie down in their dens.
²³ Then people go off to their work,
    to do their work until evening.

²⁴ Lord, you have done so many things!
    You made them all so wisely!
The earth is full of your creations!
²⁵ And then there’s the sea, wide and deep,
    with its countless creatures—
    living things both small and large.