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Psalms 104

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Part of Book IV📖 Psalms introduction

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1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. ✦ 2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. ✦ 3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. ✦ 4He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire. ✦ 5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. ✦ 6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. ✦ 7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. ✦ 8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. ✦ 9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth. ✦ 10He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. ✦ 11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. ✦ 12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches. ✦ 13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. ✦ 14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: ✦ 15wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart. ✦ 16Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted; ✦ 17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees. ✦ 18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. ✦ 19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. ✦ 20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl. ✦ 21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. ✦ 22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens. ✦ 23Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening. ✦ 24Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. ✦ 25There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. ✦ 26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. ✦ 27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. ✦ 28You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. ✦ 29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust. ✦ 30You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground. ✦ 31Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works. ✦ 32He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. ✦ 33I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. ✦ 34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh. ✦ 35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah! ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Gen 1 ·11Job 38 ·9Ps 145 ·7Ps 104 ·5Ps 136 ·5Ps 147 ·5Gen 3 ·4Ps 33 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 104 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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