Psalm104:1-106:48

⁵ He established the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not totter forever and ever.
⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.
⁷ At Your rebuke they fled,
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
⁸ The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.
⁹ You set a boundary that they may not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰ He sends forth springs in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;
¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;
They lift up their voices among the branches.
¹³ He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,
¹⁵ And wine which makes man’s heart glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And food which sustains man’s heart.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
¹⁷ Where the birds build their nests,
And the stork, whose home is the fir trees.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats;
The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim.
¹⁹ He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.
²⁰ You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.
²¹ The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.
²² When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.
²³ Man goes forth to his work
And to his labor until evening.

²⁴ O Lord, how many are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your possessions.
²⁵ There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.
²⁶ There the ships move along,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

²⁷ They all wait for You
To give them their food in due season.
²⁸ You give to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.

³¹ Let the glory of the Lord endure forever;
Let the Lord be glad in His works;
³² He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
³³ I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
³⁴ Let my meditation be pleasing to Him;
As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord.
³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,
⁹ The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.
¹⁰ Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the portion of your inheritance,”
¹² When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.
¹³ And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.
¹⁴ He permitted no man to oppress them,
And He reproved kings for their sakes:
¹⁵ “Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ And He called for a famine upon the land;
He broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷ He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;
¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the Lord tested him.
²⁰ The king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹ He made him lord of his house
And ruler over all his possessions,
²² To imprison his princes at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³ Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And He caused His people to be very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
²⁶ He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not rebel against His words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs
Even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies
And gnats in all their territory.
³² He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³ He struck down their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the trees of their territory.
³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came,
And young locusts, even without number,
³⁵ And ate up all vegetation in their land,
And ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread of them had fallen upon them.
³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering,
And fire to illumine by night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴² For He remembered His holy word
With Abraham His servant;
⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful shout.
⁴⁴ He gave them also the lands of the nations,
That they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵ So that they might keep His statutes
And observe His laws,
Praise the Lord!

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned like our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses,
But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.
⁹ Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up,
And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰ So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
¹² Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
¹⁴ But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵ So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.
¹⁸ And a fire blazed up in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²² Wonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the Red Sea.
²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
²⁴ Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe in His word,
²⁵ But grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ Therefore He swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,
²⁷ And that He would cast their seed among the nations
And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and interposed,
And so the plague was stayed.
³¹ And it was reckoned to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
³³ Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples,
As the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ But they mingled with the nations
And learned their practices,
³⁶ And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with the blood.
³⁹ Thus they became unclean in their practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He abhorred His inheritance.
⁴¹ Then He gave them into the hand of the nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their power.
⁴³ Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He heard their cry;
⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.
⁴⁶ He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise.
⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord!