Psalm 104:1-17

Complete Jewish Bible

104 Bless Adonai, my soul!
Adonai, my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with glory and majesty,
² wrapped in light as with a robe.
You spread out the heavens like a curtain,
³ you laid the beams of your palace on the water.
You make the clouds your chariot,
you ride on the wings of the wind.
⁴ You make winds your messengers,
fiery flames your servants.

⁵ You fixed the earth on its foundations,
never to be moved.
⁶ You covered it with the deep like a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they rushed away,
⁸ flowing over hills, pouring into valleys,
down to the place you had fixed for them.
⁹ You determined a boundary they could not cross;
they were never to cover the earth again.

¹⁰ You make springs gush forth in the vadis;
they flow between the hills,
¹¹ supplying water to all the wild animals;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² On their banks the birds of the air build their nests;
among the branches they sing.
¹³ You water the mountains from your palace;
the earth is satisfied with how you provide —
¹⁴ You grow grass for the cattle;
and for people you grow the plants they need
to bring forth bread from the earth,
¹⁵ wine that gladdens the human heart,
oil to make faces glow,
and food to sustain their strength.

¹⁶ Adonai’s trees are satisfied —
the cedars of the L’vanon, which he has planted.
¹⁷ In them sparrows build their nests,
while storks live in the fir trees.