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Psalms 104

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Part of Book IV📖 Psalms introduction

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1Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, ✦ 2Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. ✦ 3He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, ✦ 4Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. ✦ 5You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, ✦ 6You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. ✦ 7At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. ✦ 8They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them. ✦ 9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth. ✦ 10He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills. ✦ 11They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst. ✦ 12By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches. ✦ 13He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works. ✦ 14He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth, ✦ 15And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man’s heart. ✦ 16The trees of the Lord are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted, ✦ 17Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees. ✦ 18The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. ✦ 19He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down. ✦ 20You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about. ✦ 21The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. ✦ 22When the sun rises, they gather together And lie down in their dens. ✦ 23Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening. ✦ 24O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions— ✦ 25This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great. ✦ 26There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan Which You have made to play there. ✦ 27These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season. ✦ 28What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good. ✦ 29You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. ✦ 30You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth. ✦ 31May the glory of the Lord endure forever; May the Lord rejoice in His works. ✦ 32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke. ✦ 33I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. ✦ 34May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the Lord. ✦ 35May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord! ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Gen 1 ·11Job 38 ·9Ps 145 ·7Ps 104 ·5Ps 147 ·5Ps 136 ·5Ps 103 ·4Ps 119 ·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.

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

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