1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. LORD my God, you are exceedingly great; you have clothed yourself with splendor and majesty.
2 You wrap yourself in light like a robe; you stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
3 He sets the beams of his upper rooms in the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he goes about on the wings of the wind.
4 He makes his messengers winds, his servants a blazing fire.
5 He founded the earth upon its bases; it will not be shaken forever and ever.
6 With the deep you covered it like a robe; above the mountains the waters stood.
7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they rushed away.
8 Mountains rose, valleys went down, to the place you had appointed for them.
9 You fixed a limit they will not cross; they will not turn back to cover the earth.
10 He sends out springs into the ravines; they run between the hills.
11 They water every creature of the field; the wild donkeys satisfy their thirst.
12 By them the birds of the sky make their home; from among the leaves they sing.
13 He waters the mountains from his upper rooms; the earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
14 He makes the grass sprout for the cattle and plants for man to tend, bringing food out of the earth,
15 and wine to gladden the human heart, making faces shine with oil, and bread that sustains the human heart.
16 The trees of the LORD drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,
17 where birds make their nests; the stork—her home is in the fir trees.
18 The lofty mountains belong to the wild goats; the rocks are a shelter for the rock badgers.
19 He made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
20 You make darkness, and night comes, in which all the animals of the forest stir.
21 The young lions roar after prey and seek their food from God.
22 The sun rises; they slip away and lie down in their lairs.
23 Then man goes out to his work, to his labor till evening.
24 How many are your works, LORD! You made them all with wisdom; the earth is filled with your creatures.
25 There is the sea, vast and wide on every side; in it are moving things beyond number, living things small and large.
26 There ships travel, and Leviathan, whom you formed to frolic in it.
27 All of them wait for you to give them their food at the right time.
28 You give to them, and they gather it; you open your hand, and they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face, and they are terrified; you take away their breath, and they die and go back to their dust.
30 You send out your Spirit, and they are created; and you make new the face of the ground.
31 Let the glory of the LORD be forever; let the LORD rejoice in his works—
32 he who looks at the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will make music to my God as long as I exist.
34 Let my meditation be sweet to him; I will be glad in the LORD.
35 May sinners vanish from the earth, and may the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!