ASV - Psalms 104 to 105

Psalm 104

¹Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, thou art very great; Thou art clothed with honor and majesty: ²Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; ³Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind; ⁴Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers; ⁵Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever. ⁶Thou coveredst 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 ⁸(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. ⁹Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.

¹⁰He sendeth forth springs into the valleys; They run among the mountains; ¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst. ¹²By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the branches. ¹³He watereth the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works. ¹⁴He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth, ¹⁵And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, And oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart. ¹⁶The trees of Jehovah are filled with moisture, 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 rocks are a refuge for the conies. ¹⁹He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down. ²⁰Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth. ²¹The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. ²²The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens. ²³Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

²⁴O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. ²⁶There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein. ²⁷These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them their food in due season. ²⁸Thou givest unto them, they gather; Thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good. ²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. ³⁰Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.

³¹Let the glory of Jehovah endure for ever; Let Jehovah rejoice in his works: ³²Who 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 praise to my God while I have any being. ³⁴Let thy meditation be sweet unto him: I will rejoice in Jehovah. ³⁵Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. And let the wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise ye Jehovah.

Psalm 105

¹Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known among the peoples his doings. ²Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk ye of all his marvelous works. ³Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah. ⁴Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore. ⁵Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. ⁷He is Jehovah our God: His judgments are in all the earth. ⁸He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ⁹The covenant which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac, ¹⁰And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance; ¹²When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he 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 brake the whole staff of bread. ¹⁷He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant: ¹⁸His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in chains of iron, ¹⁹Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him. ²⁰The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. ²¹He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance; ²²To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom. ²³Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. ²⁴And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries. ²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants. ²⁶He sent Moses his servant, And Aaron whom he had chosen. ²⁷They set among them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words. ²⁹He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish. ³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings. ³¹He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders. ³²He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land. ³³He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders. ³⁴He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number, ³⁵And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground. ³⁶He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.

³⁷And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And there was not one feeble person among his tribes. ³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed; 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 out; 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 joy, And his chosen with singing. ⁴⁴And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession: ⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.