Psalms 103; Psalms 104; Psalms 105

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Psalms 103

1 My soul, praise the Lord, and all that is within me, praise His holy name.

2 My soul, praise the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits.

3 He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.

4 He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

5 He satisfies you with goodness; your youth is renewed like the eagle.

6 The Lord executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He revealed His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and full of faithful love.

9 He will not always accuse [us] or be angry forever.

10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our offenses.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

14 For He knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass- he blooms like a flower of the field;

16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known.

17 But from eternity to eternity the Lord's faithful love is toward those who fear Him, and His righteousness toward the grandchildren

18 of those who keep His covenant, who remember to observe His instructions.

19 The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.

20 Praise the Lord, [all] His angels of great strength, who do His word, obedient to His command.

21 Praise the Lord, all His armies, His servants who do His will.

22 Praise the Lord, all His works in all the places where He rules. My soul, praise the Lord!

Psalms 104

1 My soul, praise the Lord! Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with majesty and splendor.

2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

3 laying the beams of His palace on the waters [above], making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,

4 and making the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.

6 You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away-

8 mountains rose and valleys sank- to the place You established for them.

9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

11 They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the sky live beside [the springs]; they sing among the foliage.

13 He waters the mountains from His palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock and [provides] crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,

15 wine that makes man's heart glad- making his face shine with oil- and bread that sustains man's heart.

16 The trees of the Lord flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.

17 There the birds make their nests; the stork makes its home in the pine trees.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.

21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

24 How countless are Your works, Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number- living things both large and small.

26 There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.

27 All of them wait for You to give them their food at the right time.

28 When You give it to them, they gather it; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

30 When You send Your breath, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in His works.

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.

34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him; I will rejoice in the Lord.

35 May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. My soul, praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

Psalms 105

1 Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name; proclaim His deeds among the peoples.

2 Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell about all His wonderful works!

3 Honor His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

4 Search for the Lord and for His strength; seek His face always.

5 Remember the wonderful works He has done, His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,

6 you offspring of Abraham His servant, Jacob's descendants -His chosen ones.

7 He is the Lord our God; His judgments [govern] the whole earth.

8 He forever remembers His covenant, the promise He ordained for a thousand generations-

9 [the covenant] He made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,

10 and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

11 "I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion."

12 When they were few in number, very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan,

13 wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

14 He allowed no one to oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

15 "Do not touch My anointed ones, or harm My prophets."

16 He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

17 He had sent a man ahead of them- Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18 They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

19 Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the Lord tested him.

20 The king sent [for him] and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

21 He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions-

22 binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.

23 Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

24 The Lord made His people very fruitful; He made them more numerous than their foes,

25 whose hearts He turned to hate His people and to deal deceptively with His servants.

26 He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and it became dark- for did they not defy His commands?

29 He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die.

30 Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their kings' chambers.

31 He spoke, and insects came- gnats throughout their country.

32 He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.

33 He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke and locusts came- young locusts without number.

35 They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

36 He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.

37 Then He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among His tribes stumbled.

38 Egypt was glad when they left, for dread of Israel had fallen on them.

39 He spread a cloud as a covering and [gave] a fire to light up the night.

40 They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.

42 For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

43 He brought His people out with rejoicing, His chosen ones with shouts of joy.

44 He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.

45 [All this happened] so that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!