The Psalms, starting at chapter 103
Psalm 103
By David.
{103:1} Praise the LORD, my soul!
All that is within me, praise his holy name!
{103:2} Praise the LORD, my soul,
and don't forget all his benefits;
{103:3} who forgives all your sins;
who heals all your diseases;
{103:4} who redeems your life from destruction;
who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
{103:5} who satisfies your desire with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
{103:6} The LORD executes righteous acts,
and justice for all who are oppressed.
{103:7} He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the children of Israel.
{103:8} The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
{103:9} He will not always accuse;
neither will he stay angry forever.
{103:10} He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
nor repaid us for our iniquities.
{103:11} For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
{103:12} As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
{103:13} Like a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
{103:14} For he knows how we are made.
He remembers that we are dust.
{103:15} As for man, his days are like grass.
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
{103:16} For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.
Its place remembers it no more.
{103:17} But the LORD's loving kindness is from everlasting to
everlasting with those who fear him,
his righteousness to children's children;
{103:18} to those who keep his covenant,
to those who remember to obey his precepts.
{103:19} The LORD has established his throne in the heavens.
His kingdom rules over all.
{103:20} Praise the LORD, you angels of his,
who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,
obeying the voice of his word.
{103:21} Praise the LORD, all you armies of his,
you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
{103:22} Praise the LORD, all you works of his,
in all places of his dominion.
Praise the LORD, my soul!
Psalm 104
{104:1} Bless the LORD, my soul.
The LORD, my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
{104:2} He covers himself with light as with a garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
{104:3} He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot.
He walks on the wings of the wind.
{104:4} He makes his [1>]messengers[<1] winds;
his servants flames of fire.
{104:5} He laid the foundations of the earth,
that it should not be moved forever.
{104:6} You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.
The waters stood above the mountains.
{104:7} At your rebuke they fled.
At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
{104:8} The mountains rose,
the valleys sank down,
to the place which you had assigned to them.
{104:9} You have set a boundary that they may not pass over;
that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
{104:10} He sends forth springs into the valleys.
They run among the mountains.
{104:11} They give drink to every animal of the field.
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
{104:12} The birds of the sky nest by them.
They sing among the branches.
{104:13} He waters the mountains from his chambers.
The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
{104:14} He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,
and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
{104:15} wine that makes glad the heart of man,
oil to make his face to shine,
and bread that strengthens man's heart.
{104:16} The LORD's trees are well watered,
the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
{104:17} where the birds make their nests.
The stork makes its home in the fir trees.
{104:18} The high mountains are for the wild goats.
The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
{104:19} He appointed the moon for seasons.
The sun knows when to set.
{104:20} You make darkness, and it is night,
in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
{104:21} The young lions roar after their prey,
and seek their food from God.
{104:22} The sun rises, and they steal away,
and lay down in their dens.
{104:23} Man goes forth to his work,
to his labor until the evening.
{104:24} The LORD, how many are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
{104:25} There is the sea, great and wide,
in which are innumerable living things,
both small and large animals.
{104:26} There the ships go,
and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
{104:27} These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food in due season.
{104:28} You give to them; they gather.
You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
{104:29} You hide your face: they are troubled;
you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
{104:30} You send forth your Spirit: they are created.
You renew the face of the ground.
{104:31} Let the glory of the LORD endure forever.
Let the LORD rejoice in his works.
{104:32} He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
{104:33} I will sing to the LORD as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
{104:34} Let your meditation be sweet to him.
I will rejoice in the LORD.
{104:35} Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
Let the wicked be no more.
Bless the LORD, my soul.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm 105
{105:1} Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples.
{105:2} Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
{105:3} Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
{105:4} Seek the LORD and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
{105:5} Remember his marvelous works that he has done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
{105:6} you seed of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
{105:7} He is the LORD, our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
{105:8} He has remembered his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
{105:9} the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac,
{105:10} and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute;
to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
{105:11} saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance;"
{105:12} when they were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
{105:13} They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
{105:14} He allowed no one to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
{105:15} "Don't touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!"
{105:16} He called for a famine on the land.
He destroyed the food supplies.
{105:17} He sent a man before them.
Joseph was sold for a slave.
{105:18} They bruised his feet with shackles.
His neck was locked in irons,
{105:19} until the time that his word happened,
and the LORD's word proved him true.
{105:20} The king sent and freed him;
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
{105:21} He made him lord of his house,
and ruler of all of his possessions;
{105:22} to discipline his princes at his pleasure,
and to teach his elders wisdom.
{105:23} Israel also came into Egypt.
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
{105:24} He increased his people greatly,
and made them stronger than their adversaries.
{105:25} He turned their heart to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
{105:26} He sent Moses, his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
{105:27} They performed miracles among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
{105:28} He sent darkness, and made it dark.
They didn't rebel against his words.
{105:29} He turned their waters into blood,
and killed their fish.
{105:30} Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.
{105:31} He spoke, and swarms of flies came,
and lice in all their borders.
{105:32} He gave them hail for rain,
with lightning in their land.
{105:33} He struck their vines and also their fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their country.
{105:34} He spoke, and the locusts came,
and the grasshoppers, without number,
{105:35} ate up every plant in their land;
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
{105:36} He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
{105:37} He brought them forth with silver and gold.
There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
{105:38} Egypt was glad when they departed,
for the fear of them had fallen on them.
{105:39} He spread a cloud for a covering,
fire to give light in the night.
{105:40} They asked, and he brought quails,
and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
{105:41} He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.
They ran as a river in the dry places.
{105:42} For he remembered his holy word,
and Abraham, his servant.
{105:43} He brought forth his people with joy,
his chosen with singing.
{105:44} He gave them the lands of the nations.
They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
{105:45} that they might keep his statutes,
and observe his laws.
Praise the LORD!
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Footnotes:
[1] {104:4} or, angels
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