¹ Bless Adonai, O my soul.
Adonai my God, You are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty—
² wrapping Yourself in light as a robe,
stretching out heaven like a curtain,
³ laying beams for His upper rooms in waters,
    making the clouds His chariot,
    walking on the wings of the wind,
⁴ making His angels spirits,
    His servants a flaming fire.
⁵ He set the earth upon its foundations,
so it should not totter forever and ever.
⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a garment—
    the waters standing above the mountains.
⁷ At Your rebuke the waters fled.
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
⁸ The waters go up the mountains,
then down to the valleys—
to the place that You assigned to them.
⁹ You set a boundary to the waters
    that they may not cross over,
so they may not return to cover the earth.
¹⁰ You make springs gush into the valleys.
They run between the mountains.
¹¹ They give drink to all the beasts of the field—
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² Beside them the birds of the sky dwell—
they sing among the branches.
¹³ He waters mountains from His upper rooms.
The earth is full of the fruit of Your labors.
¹⁴ He causes grass to spring up for the cattle,
and vegetation for man to cultivate,
    to bring forth bread out of the earth,
¹⁵ wine that makes man’s heart glad,
    oil to make his face shine,
    and bread that sustains man’s heart.
¹⁶ The trees of Adonai are satisfied,
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
¹⁷ where birds make their nests,
and the stork—her home is the fir trees.
¹⁸ The high mountains are for wild goats,
the cliffs a refuge for rock badgers.