Psalms 104-106

Psalm 104

¹Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on.

²Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

³Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

⁴Making His messengers -- the winds, His ministers -- the flaming fire.

⁵He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

⁶The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

⁷From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

⁸They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.

⁹A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

¹⁰Who is sending forth fountains in valleys, Between hills they go on.

¹¹They water every beast of the field, Wild asses break their thirst.

¹²By them the fowl of the heavens doth dwell, From between the branches They give forth the voice.

¹³Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

¹⁴Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

¹⁵And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.

¹⁶Satisfied are the trees of Jehovah, Cedars of Lebanon that He hath planted,

¹⁷Where birds do make nests, The stork -- the firs are her house.

¹⁸The high hills are for wild goats, Rocks are a refuge for conies,

¹⁹He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.

²⁰Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

²¹The young lions are roaring for prey, And to seek from God their food.

²²The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.

²³Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service -- till evening.

²⁴How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

²⁵This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

²⁶There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

²⁷All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season.

²⁸Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they are satisfied with good.

²⁹Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

³⁰Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

³¹The honour of Jehovah is to the age, Jehovah rejoiceth in His works,

³²Who is looking to earth, and it trembleth, He cometh against hills, and they smoke.

³³I sing to Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

³⁴Sweet is my meditation on Him, I -- I do rejoice in Jehovah.

³⁵Consumed are sinners from the earth, And the wicked are no more. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah!

Psalm 105

¹Give ye thanks to Jehovah -- call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.

²Sing ye to Him -- sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.

³Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.

⁴Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.

⁵Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

⁶O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

⁷He is Jehovah our God, In all the earth are His judgments.

⁸He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during,

¹¹Saying, ‘To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'

¹²In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

¹³And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

¹⁴He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.

¹⁵‘Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'

¹⁶And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

¹⁷He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.

¹⁸They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

¹⁹Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.

²⁰The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.

²¹He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.

²²To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And his elders he maketh wise.

²³And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

²⁶He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.

²⁷They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

²⁹He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.

³⁰Teemed hath their land with frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings.

³¹He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

³²He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire is in their land.

³³And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.

³⁴He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

³⁵And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

³⁷And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.

³⁸Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.

³⁹He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

⁴⁰They have asked, and He bringeth quails, And with bread of heaven satisfieth them.

⁴¹He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places -- a river.

⁴²For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,

⁴³And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

⁴⁴And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,

⁴⁵That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

Psalm 106

¹Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, is His kindness.

²Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?

³O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

⁵To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

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

⁷Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

⁸And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

⁹And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

¹⁰And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

¹²And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

¹³They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

¹⁴And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

¹⁵And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

¹⁶And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

¹⁷Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

¹⁹They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

²⁰And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

²¹They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

²²Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

²³And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

²⁴And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

²⁵And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

²⁷And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

²⁸And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

²⁹And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

³⁰And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

³¹And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.

³²And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

³³For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

³⁴They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

³⁵And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

³⁶And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

³⁷And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

³⁸And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

³⁹And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

⁴⁰And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

⁴¹And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

⁴²And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

⁴³Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

⁴⁵And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

⁴⁶And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, ‘Amen, praise Jah!'