Psalm 104

Praise to the Sovereign Lord For His Creation and Providence

1 Bless athe Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, You are very great:

You are clothed with honor and majesty,

2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,

Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

3 bHe lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,

Who makes the clouds His chariot,

Who walks on the wings of the wind,

4 Who makes His angels spirits,

His 1ministers a flame of fire.

5 You who 2laid the foundations of the earth,

So that it should not be moved forever,

6 You ccovered it with the deep as with a garment;

The waters stood above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke they fled;

At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

8 3They went up over the mountains;

They went down into the valleys,

To the place which You founded for them.

9 You have dset a boundary that they may not pass over,

eThat they may not return to cover the earth.

10 He sends the springs into the valleys;

They flow among the hills.

11 They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 By them the birds of the heavens have their home;

They sing among the branches.

13 fHe waters the hills from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with gthe fruit of Your works.

14 hHe causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the service of man,

That he may bring forth ifood from the earth,

15 And jwine that makes glad the heart of man,

Oil to make his face shine,

And bread which strengthens man’s heart.

16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

17 Where the birds make their nests;

The stork has her home in the fir trees.

18 The high hills are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the krock 4badgers.

19 lHe appointed the moon for seasons;

The msun knows its going down.

20 nYou make darkness, and it is night,

In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.

21 oThe young lions roar after their prey,

And seek their food from God.

22 When the sun rises, they gather together

And lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes out to phis work

And to his labor until the evening.

24 qO Lord, how manifold are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all.

The earth is full of Your rpossessions—

25 This great and wide sea,

In which are innumerable teeming things,

Living things both small and great.

26 There the ships sail about;

There is that sLeviathan 5

Which You have 6made to play there.

27 tThese all wait for You,

That You may give them their food in due season.

28 What You give them they gather in;

You open Your hand, they are filled with good.

29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;

uYou take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

30 vYou send forth Your Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever;

May the Lord wrejoice in His works.

32 He looks on the earth, and it xtrembles;

yHe touches the hills, and they smoke.

33 zI will sing to the Lord as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34 May my ameditation be sweet to Him;

I will be glad in the Lord.

35 May bsinners be consumed from the earth,

And the wicked be no more.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

7Praise the Lord!

Psalm 105

The Eternal Faithfulness of the Lord

1 Oh, agive thanks to the Lord!

Call upon His name;

bMake known His deeds among the peoples!

2 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;

cTalk of all His wondrous works!

3 Glory in His holy name;

Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!

4 Seek the Lord and His strength;

dSeek His face evermore!

5 eRemember His marvelous works which He has done,

His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,

6 O seed of Abraham His servant,

You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

7 He is the Lord our God;

fHis judgments are in all the earth.

8 He gremembers His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

9 hThe covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac,

10 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11 Saying, i“To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the allotment of your inheritance,”

12 jWhen they were few in number,

Indeed very few, kand strangers in it.

13 When they went from one nation to another,

From one kingdom to another people,

14 lHe permitted no one to do them wrong;

Yes, mHe rebuked kings for their sakes,

15 Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

16 Moreover nHe called for a famine in the land;

He destroyed all the oprovision of bread.

17 pHe sent a man before them—

Joseph—who qwas sold as a slave.

18 rThey hurt his feet with fetters,

1He was laid in irons.

19 Until the time that his word came to pass,

sThe word of the Lord tested him.

20 tThe king sent and released him,

The ruler of the people let him go free.

21 uHe made him lord of his house,

And ruler of all his possessions,

22 To 2bind his princes at his pleasure,

And teach his elders wisdom.

23 vIsrael also came into Egypt,

And Jacob dwelt win the land of Ham.

24 xHe increased His people greatly,

And made them stronger than their enemies.

25 yHe turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

26 zHe sent Moses His servant,

And Aaron whom He had chosen.

27 They aperformed His signs among them,

And wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His word.

29 bHe turned their waters into blood,

And killed their fish.

30 cTheir land abounded with frogs,

Even in the chambers of their kings.

31 dHe spoke, and there came swarms of flies,

And lice in all their territory.

32 eHe gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

33 fHe struck their vines also, and their fig trees,

And splintered the trees of their territory.

34 gHe spoke, and locusts came,

Young locusts without number,

35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land,

And devoured the fruit of their ground.

36 hHe also 3destroyed all the firstborn in their land,

iThe first of all their strength.

37 jHe also brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was none feeble among His tribes.

38 kEgypt was glad when they departed,

For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

39 lHe spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to give light in the night.

40 mThe people asked, and He brought quail,

And nsatisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 oHe opened the rock, and water gushed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For He remembered pHis holy promise,

And Abraham His servant.

43 He brought out His people with joy,

His chosen ones with 4gladness.

44 qHe gave them the lands of the 5Gentiles,

And they inherited the labor of the nations,

45 rThat they might observe His statutes

And keep His laws.

6Praise the Lord!

Psalm 106

Joy in Forgiveness of Israel’s Sins

1 Praise 1the Lord!

aOh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!

For His mercy endures forever.

2 Who can 2utter the mighty acts of the Lord?

Who can declare all His praise?

3 Blessed are those who keep justice,

And 3he who bdoes righteousness at call times!

4 dRemember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people.

Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

5 That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,

That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

That I may glory with 4Your inheritance.

6 eWe have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity,

We have done wickedly.

7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;

They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,

fBut rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

8 Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,

gThat He might make His mighty power known.

9 hHe rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;

So iHe led them through the depths,

As through the wilderness.

10 He jsaved them from the hand of him who hated them,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 kThe waters covered their enemies;

There was not one of them left.

12 lThen they believed His words;

They sang His praise.

13 mThey soon forgot His works;

They did not wait for His counsel,

14 nBut lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And tested God in the desert.

15 oAnd He gave them their request,

But psent leanness into their soul.

16 When qthey envied Moses in the camp,

And Aaron the saint of the Lord,

17 rThe earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,

And covered the faction of Abiram.

18 sA fire was kindled in their company;

The flame burned up the wicked.

19 tThey made a calf in Horeb,

And worshiped the molded image.

20 Thus uthey changed their glory

Into the image of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God their Savior,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

Awesome things by the Red Sea.

23 vTherefore He said that He would destroy them,

Had not Moses His chosen one wstood before Him in the breach,

To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

24 Then they despised xthe pleasant land;

They ydid not believe His word,

25 zBut complained in their tents,

And did not heed the voice of the Lord.

26 aTherefore He raised up His hand in an oath against them,

bTo 5overthrow them in the wilderness,

27 cTo 6overthrow their descendants among the 7nations,

And to scatter them in the lands.

28 dThey joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,

And ate sacrifices 8made to the dead.

29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,

And the plague broke out among them.

30 eThen Phinehas stood up and intervened,

And the plague was stopped.

31 And that was accounted to him ffor righteousness

To all generations forevermore.

32 gThey angered Him also at the waters of 9strife,

hSo that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

33 iBecause they rebelled against His Spirit,

So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

34 jThey did not destroy the peoples,

kConcerning whom the Lord had commanded them,

35 lBut they mingled with the Gentiles

And learned their works;

36 mThey served their idols,

nWhich became a snare to them.

37 oThey even sacrificed their sons

And their daughters to pdemons,

38 And shed innocent blood,

The blood of their sons and daughters,

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

And qthe land was polluted with blood.

39 Thus they 1were rdefiled by their own works,

And splayed 2the harlot by their own deeds.

40 Therefore tthe wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,

So that He abhorred uHis own inheritance.

41 And vHe gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

42 Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

43 wMany times He delivered them;

But they rebelled in their counsel,

And were brought low for their iniquity.

44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,

When xHe heard their cry;

45 yAnd for their sake He remembered His covenant,

And zrelented aaccording to the multitude of His mercies.

46 bHe also made them to be pitied

By all those who carried them away captive.

47 cSave us, O Lord our God,

And gather us from among the Gentiles,

To give thanks to Your holy name,

To triumph in Your praise.

48 dBlessed be the Lord God of Israel

From everlasting to everlasting!

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

3Praise the Lord!