Psalm 103-105

Christian Standard Bible

³ He forgives all your iniquity;^(C)
he heals all your diseases.^(D)
4 He redeems your life from the Pit;^(E)
he crowns you with faithful love and compassion.^(F)
5 He satisfies you^[a] with good things;^(G)
your youth is renewed like the eagle.^(H)

⁶ The Lord executes acts of righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.^(I)
7 He revealed his ways to Moses,^(J)
his deeds to the people of Israel.^(K)
8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.^(L)
9 He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.^(M)
10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our iniquities.^(N)

¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his faithful love
toward those who fear him.^(O)
12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.^(P)
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.^(Q)
14 For he knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.^(R)

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;^(S)
16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes,
and its place is no longer known.^[b](T)
17 But from eternity to eternity
the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear him,
and his righteousness toward the grandchildren^(U)
18 of those who keep his covenant,
who remember to observe his precepts.^(V)
19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.^(W)

²⁰ Bless the Lord,
all his angels of great strength,
who do his word,
obedient to his command.^(X)
21 Bless the Lord, all his armies,
his servants who do his will.^(Y)
22 Bless the Lord, all his works
in all the places where he rules.^(Z)
My soul, bless the Lord!

⁵ He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.^(AG)
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the water stood above the mountains.^(AH)
7 At your rebuke the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder they hurried away^(AI)—
⁸ mountains rose and valleys sank^[d]—
to the place you established for them.^(AJ)
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.^(AK)

¹⁰ He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.^(AL)
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.^(AM)
12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they make their voices heard among the foliage.^(AN)
13 He waters the mountains from his palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of your labor.^(AO)

¹⁴ He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,^(AP)
15 wine that makes human hearts glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains human hearts.^(AQ)

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord flourish,^[e]
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.^(AR)
17 There the birds make their nests;
storks make their homes in the pine trees.^(AS)
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.^(AT)

¹⁹ He made the moon to mark the^[f] festivals;^[g]
the sun knows when to set.^(AU)
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.^(AV)
21 The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.^(AW)
22 The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.^(AX)
23 Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.^(AY)

²⁴ How countless are your works, Lord!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.^[h](AZ)
25 Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.^(BA)
26 There the ships move about,
and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.^(BB)

²⁷ All of them wait for you
to give them their food at the right time.^(BC)
28 When you give it to them,
they gather it;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.^(BD)
29 When you hide your face,
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.^(BE)
30 When you send your breath,^[i]
they are created,^(BF)
and you renew the surface of the ground.^(BG)

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works.^(BH)
32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
he touches the mountains,
and they pour out smoke.^(BI)
33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.^(BJ)
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him;
I will rejoice in the Lord.^(BK)
35 May sinners vanish from the earth
and wicked people be no more.^(BL)
My soul, bless the Lord!
Hallelujah!

⁷ He is the Lord our God;
his judgments govern the whole earth.^(BS)
8 He remembers his covenant forever,
the promise he ordained
for a thousand generations^(BT)—
⁹ the covenant he made with Abraham,
swore^[k] to Isaac,^(BU)
10 and confirmed to Jacob as a decree
and to Israel as a permanent covenant:^(BV)
11 “I will give the land of Canaan to you
as your inherited portion.”^(BW)

¹² When they were few in number,
very few indeed,
and resident aliens in Canaan,^(BX)
13 wandering from nation to nation
and from one kingdom to another,^(BY)
14 he allowed no one to oppress them;
he rebuked kings on their behalf:^(BZ)
15 “Do not touch my anointed ones,^(CA)
or harm my prophets.”^(CB)

¹⁶ He called down famine against the land
and destroyed the entire food supply.^(CC)
17 He had sent a man ahead of them—
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.^(CD)
18 They hurt his feet with shackles;
his neck was put in an iron collar.^(CE)
19 Until the time his prediction came true,
the word of the Lord tested him.^(CF)
20 The king sent for him and released him;
the ruler of peoples set him free.^(CG)
21 He made him master of his household,
ruler over all his possessions^(CH)—
²² binding^[l] his officials at will
and instructing his elders.^(CI)

²³ Then Israel went to Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.^[m](CJ)
24 The Lord^[n] made his people very fruitful;
he made them more numerous than their foes,^(CK)
25 whose hearts he turned to hate his people
and to deal deceptively with his servants.^(CL)
26 He sent Moses his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.^(CM)
27 They performed his miraculous signs among them
and wonders in the land of Ham.^(CN)
28 He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy his commands?^(CO)
29 He turned their water into blood
and caused their fish to die.^(CP)
30 Their land was overrun with frogs,
even in their royal chambers.^(CQ)
31 He spoke, and insects came^(CR)—
gnats throughout their country.^(CS)
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and lightning throughout their land.^(CT)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their territory.^(CU)
34 He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.
³⁵ They devoured all the vegetation in their land
and consumed the produce of their land.^(CV)
36 He struck all the firstborn in their land,
all their first progeny.^(CW)

³⁷ Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold,
and no one among his tribes stumbled.^(CX)
38 Egypt was glad when they left,
for the dread of Israel^[o] had fallen on them.^(CY)
39 He spread a cloud as a covering
and gave a fire to light up the night.^(CZ)
40 They asked, and he brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.^(DA)
41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a stream in the desert.^(DB)
42 For he remembered his holy promise
to Abraham his servant.^(DC)
43 He brought his people out with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouts of joy.^(DD)
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they inherited
what other peoples had worked for.^(DE)

⁴⁵ All this happened
so that they might keep his statutes
and obey his instructions.^(DF)
Hallelujah!