Psalm 104

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ You set the earth on its foundations,
    so that it shall never be shaken.
⁶ You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ At your rebuke they flee;
    at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
⁸ They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys
    to the place that you appointed for them.
⁹ You set a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they might not again cover the earth.

¹⁰ You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
    they flow between the hills,
¹¹ giving drink to every wild animal;
    the wild asses quench their thirst.
¹² By the streams^[e] the birds of the air have their habitation;
    they sing among the branches.
¹³ From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
    the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

¹⁴ You cause the grass to grow for the cattle,
    and plants for people to use,^[f]
to bring forth food from the earth,
¹⁵     and wine to gladden the human heart,
oil to make the face shine,
    and bread to strengthen the human heart.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,
    the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
¹⁷ In them the birds build their nests;
    the stork has its home in the fir trees.
¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats;
    the rocks are a refuge for the coneys.
¹⁹ You have made the moon to mark the seasons;
    the sun knows its time for setting.
²⁰ You make darkness, and it is night,
    when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.
²¹ The young lions roar for their prey,
    seeking their food from God.
²² When the sun rises, they withdraw
    and lie down in their dens.
²³ People go out to their work
    and to their labour until the evening.

²⁴ O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In wisdom you have made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
    creeping things innumerable are there,
    living things both small and great.
²⁶ There go the ships,
    and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

²⁷ These all look to you
    to give them their food in due season;
²⁸ when you give to them, they gather it up;
    when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
²⁹ When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
    when you take away their breath, they die
    and return to their dust.
³⁰ When you send forth your spirit,^[g] they are created;
    and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
    may the Lord rejoice in his works—
³² who looks on the earth and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains and they smoke.
³³ I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
³⁴ May my meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
    and let the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!