86:1<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need. 86:2Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you. 86:3Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day. 86:4Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord. 86:5You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you. 86:6O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests. 86:7In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer. 86:8There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works. 86:9Let all the nations whom you have made come and give worship to you, O Lord, giving glory to your name. 86:10For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God. 86:11Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name. 86:12I will give you praise, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will give glory to your name for ever. 86:13For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld. 86:14O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them. 86:15But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom. 86:16O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant. 86:17Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.
87:1<Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.> This house is resting on the holy mountain. 87:2The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob. 87:3Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.) 87:4Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there. 87:5And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong. 87:6The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.) 87:7The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.
88:1<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night: 88:2Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry: 88:3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. 88:4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 88:5My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 88:6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 88:7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) 88:8You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out. 88:9My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. 88:10Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 88:11Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 88:12May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? 88:13But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. 88:14Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? 88:15I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 88:16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. 88:17They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. 88:18You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
89:1<Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations. 89:2For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens. 89:3I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 89:4I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.) 89:5In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints. 89:6For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods? 89:7God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him. 89:8O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you. 89:9You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm. 89:10Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters. 89:11Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it. 89:12You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name. 89:13Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand. 89:14The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face. 89:15Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way. 89:16In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up. 89:17For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up. 89:18For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's. 89:19Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people. 89:20I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head. 89:21My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength. 89:22The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil. 89:23I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows. 89:24But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up. 89:25I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 89:26He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 89:27And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth. 89:28I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. 89:29His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens. 89:30If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; 89:31If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; 89:32Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. 89:33But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. 89:34I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. 89:35I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. 89:36His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me. 89:37It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.) 89:38But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection. 89:39You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth. 89:40All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction. 89:41All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours. 89:42You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him. 89:43His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight. 89:44You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth. 89:45You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.) 89:46How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? 89:47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose? 89:48What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.) 89:49Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith? 89:50Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 89:51The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king. 89:52Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
90:1<A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations. 90:2Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God. 90:3You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men. 90:4For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. 90:5... 90:6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 90:8You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 90:9For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 90:10The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone. 90:11Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion? 90:12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. 90:13Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed. 90:14In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days. 90:15Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil. 90:16Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children. 90:17Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
91:1Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High; 91:2Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope. 91:3He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease. 91:4You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation. 91:5You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day, 91:6Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high. 91:7You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. 91:8Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers. 91:9Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place; 91:10No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent. 91:11For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go. 91:12In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. 91:13You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet. 91:14Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart. 91:15When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour. 91:16With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
92:1<A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.> It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High; 92:2To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night; 92:3On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound. 92:4For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands. 92:5O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep. 92:6A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in. 92:7When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction. 92:8But you, O Lord, are on high for ever. 92:9For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight; 92:10But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head. 92:11My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me. 92:12The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. 92:13Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. 92:14They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth; 92:15For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
93:1The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved. 93:2The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal. 93:3The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. 93:4The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea. 93:5Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
94:1O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen. 94:2Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride. 94:3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us? 94:4Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves. 94:5Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled, 94:6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father; 94:7And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it. 94:8Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise? 94:9Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed? 94:10He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man? 94:11The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath. 94:12Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law; 94:13So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners. 94:14The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage; 94:15But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true. 94:16Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil? 94:17If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death. 94:18If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support. 94:19Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul. 94:20What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law? 94:21They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong. 94:22But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe. 94:23And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
95:1O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation. 95:2Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs. 95:3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods. 95:4The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his. 95:5The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands. 95:6O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker. 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice! 95:8Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land; 95:9When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work. 95:10For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways; 95:11And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
96:1O make a new song to the Lord; let all the earth make melody to the Lord. 96:2Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day. 96:3Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples. 96:4For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods. 96:5For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens. 96:6Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place. 96:7Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. 96:8Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house. 96:9O give worship to the Lord in holy robes; be in fear before him, all the earth. 96:10Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples. 96:11Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters; 96:12Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy, 96:13Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
97:1The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad. 97:2Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging. 97:3Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about. 97:4His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear. 97:5The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth. 97:6The heavens gave out the news of his righteousness, and all the people saw his glory. 97:7Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods. 97:8Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord. 97:9For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods. 97:10You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners. 97:11Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy. 97:12Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.
98:1<A Psalm.> O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome. 98:2The Lord has given to all the knowledge of his salvation; he has made clear his righteousness in the eyes of the nations. 98:3He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 98:4Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy. 98:5Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song. 98:6With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King. 98:7Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it; 98:8Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together, 98:9Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
99:1The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved. 99:2The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations. 99:3Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he. 99:4The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob. 99:5Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he. 99:6Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who gave honour to his name; they made prayers to the Lord, and he gave answers to them. 99:7His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them. 99:8You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing. 99:9Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
100:1<A Psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth. 100:2Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song. 100:3Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food. 100:4Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise; give him honour, blessing his name. 100:5For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.
101:1<A Psalm. Of David.> I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody. 101:2I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart. 101:3I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me. 101:4The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend. 101:5I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me. 101:6My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant. 101:7The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes. 101:8Morning by morning will I put to death all the sinners in the land, so that all evil-doers may be cut off from Jerusalem.
102:1<A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you. 102:2Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly. 102:3My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 102:4My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. 102:5Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone. 102:6I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand. 102:7I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top. 102:8My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse. 102:9I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping: 102:10Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you. 102:11My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass. 102:12But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end. 102:13You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted. 102:14For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust. 102:15So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory: 102:16When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory; 102:17When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side. 102:18This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord. 102:19For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven; 102:20Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered; 102:21So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 102:22When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord. 102:23He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days. 102:24I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations: 102:25In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 102:26They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed: 102:27But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end. 102:28The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
103:1<Of David.> Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name. 103:2Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory. 103:3He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases; 103:4He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace. 103:5He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's. 103:6The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble. 103:7He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel. 103:8The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy. 103:9His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever. 103:10He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing. 103:11For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers. 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us. 103:13As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers. 103:14For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust. 103:15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 103:16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer. 103:17But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness; 103:18If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them. 103:19The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all. 103:20Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice. 103:21Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies; and you his servants who do his pleasure. 103:22Give praise to the Lord, all his works, in all places under his rule: give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
104:1Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power. 104:2You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain: 104:3The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind: 104:4He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants. 104:5He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever; 104:6Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; 104:7At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; 104:8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. 104:9You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them. 104:10You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills. 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water. 104:12The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches. 104:13He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works. 104:14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; 104:15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart. 104:16The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting; 104:17Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house. 104:18The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts. 104:19He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down. 104:20When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places. 104:21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. 104:22The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest. 104:23Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening. 104:24O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made. 104:25There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. 104:26There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything. 104:27All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 104:28They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand. 104:29If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust. 104:30If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth. 104:31Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works: 104:32At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke. 104:33I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being. 104:34Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord. 104:35Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.
105:1O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples. 105:2Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works. 105:3Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad. 105:4Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him. 105:5Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth; 105:6O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones. 105:7He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth. 105:8He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations; 105:9The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; 105:10And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement; 105:11Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage: 105:12When they were still small in number, and strange in the land; 105:13When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people. 105:14He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them, 105:15Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong. 105:16And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread. 105:17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price: 105:18His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands; 105:19Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord. 105:20The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free. 105:21He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had; 105:22To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him. 105:23Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham. 105:24And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them. 105:25Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them. 105:26He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, the man of his selection. 105:27He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham. 105:28He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word. 105:29At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish. 105:30Their land was full of frogs, even in the rooms of the king. 105:31He gave the word, and there came the dog-fly, and insects over all the land. 105:32He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land. 105:33He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down. 105:34At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered, 105:35And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food. 105:36He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength. 105:37He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them. 105:38Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them. 105:39A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night. 105:40At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food. 105:41His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river. 105:42For he kept in mind his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. 105:43And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries: 105:44And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage; 105:45So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.