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The Loʀᴅ’s Care over All His Works.
1 ABless the Loʀᴅ, O my soul!
O Loʀᴅ my God, You are very great;
You are
Bclothed with splendor and majesty,
2 Covering Yourself with
Alight as with a cloak,
BStretching out heaven like a
tent curtain.
3 1He
Alays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;
1He makes the
Bclouds His chariot;
1He walks upon the
Cwings of the wind;
4 1He makes
2Athe winds His messengers,
3Flaming
Bfire His ministers.
5 He
Aestablished the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not
1totter forever and ever.
6 You
Acovered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.
7 At Your
Arebuke they fled,
At the
Bsound of Your thunder they hurried away.
8 The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the
Aplace which You established for them.
9 You set a
Aboundary that they may not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
10 1He sends forth
Asprings in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;
11 They
Agive drink to every beast of the field;
The
Bwild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 1Beside them the birds of the heavens
Adwell;
They
2lift up
their voices among the branches.
13 1He
Awaters the mountains from His upper chambers;
BThe earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.
14 1He causes the
Agrass to grow for the
2cattle,
And
Bvegetation for the
3labor of man,
So that
4he may bring forth
5food
Cfrom the earth,
15 And
Awine which makes man’s heart glad,
BSo that he may make
his face glisten with oil,
And
1food which
Csustains man’s heart.
16 The trees of the Loʀᴅ
1drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
17 Where the
Abirds build their nests,
And the
Bstork, whose home is the
1fir trees.
18 The high mountains are for the
Awild goats;
The
Bcliffs are a refuge for the
1Cshephanim.
19 He made the moon
Afor the seasons;
The
Bsun knows the place of its setting.
20 You
Aappoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the
Bbeasts of the forest
1prowl about.
21 The
Ayoung lions roar after their prey
1And
Bseek their food from God.
22 When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their
Adens.
23 Man goes forth to
Ahis work
And to his labor until evening.
24 O Loʀᴅ, how
Amany are Your works!
1In
Bwisdom You have made them all;
The
Cearth is full of Your
2possessions.
25 1There is the
Asea, great and
2broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.
26 There the
Aships move along,
And 1BLeviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.
27 They all
Await for You
To
Bgive them their food in
1due season.
28 You give to them, they gather it up;
You
Aopen Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
29 You
Ahide Your face, they are dismayed;
You
Btake away their
1spirit, they expire
And
Creturn to their dust.
30 You send forth Your
1ASpirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.
31 Let the
Aglory of the Loʀᴅ endure forever;
Let the Loʀᴅ
Bbe glad in His works;
32 1He
Alooks at the earth, and it
Btrembles;
He
Ctouches the mountains, and they smoke.
33 1I will sing to the Loʀᴅ
2Aas long as I live;
1I will
Bsing praise to my God
3while I have my being.
34 Let my
Ameditation be pleasing to Him;
As for me, I shall
Bbe glad in the Loʀᴅ.
35 Let sinners be
Aconsumed from the earth
And let the
Bwicked be no more.
CBless the Loʀᴅ, O my soul.