Psalms 104-106

Psalm 104

¹Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour;

²Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --

³Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

⁴Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flame of fire.

⁵He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.

⁶Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:

⁷At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; --

⁸The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --

⁹Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

¹⁰He sendeth the springs into the valleys: they run among the mountains;

¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their voice from among the branches.

¹³He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

¹⁴He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,

¹⁵And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.

¹⁶The trees of Jehovah are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

¹⁷Where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.

¹⁹He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down.

²⁰Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:

²¹The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.

²²The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.

²³Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.

²⁴How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

²⁵Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great.

²⁶There go the ships; there that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein.

²⁷These all look unto thee, that thou mayest give their food in its season:

²⁸That thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good.

²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.

³⁰Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.

³¹The glory of Jehovah will endure for ever; Jehovah will rejoice in his works.

³²He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

³³I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live; I will sing psalms to my God while I have my being.

³⁴My meditation shall be pleasant unto him; I will rejoice in Jehovah.

³⁵Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked shall be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Hallelujah!

Psalm 105

¹Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.

²Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.

³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

⁴Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

⁵Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

⁶Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He is ever mindful of his covenant, -- the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, --

⁹Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

¹⁰And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

¹²When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

¹³And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

¹⁶And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.

¹⁸They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;

¹⁹Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

²⁰The king sent and loosed him -- the ruler of peoples -- and let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:

²²To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

²³And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen:

²⁷They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs, -- in the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came dog-flies, and gnats in all their borders.

³²He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land;

³³And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.

³⁴He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

³⁵And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.

³⁷And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.

³⁸Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant;

⁴³And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;

⁴⁴And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:

⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

Psalm 106

¹Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise?

³Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

⁵That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

¹²Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

¹⁴And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

¹⁸And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

²⁰And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

²⁵But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

²⁷And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

²⁸And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

²⁹And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

³²And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

³³For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

³⁵But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

³⁶And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

³⁸And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

⁴⁰Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

⁴²And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

⁴⁶And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

⁴⁷Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!