Psalms 103

¹To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are exceedingly great. You have clothed yourself with confession and beauty;

²you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent.

³You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds.

⁴You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire.

⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.

⁶The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains.

⁷At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread.

⁸The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them.

⁹You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰You spring forth fountains in steep valleys. The waters will cross through the midst of the mountains.

¹¹All the wild beasts of the field will drink. The wild donkeys will anticipate in their thirst.

¹²Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices.

¹³You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,

¹⁴producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,

¹⁵and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.

¹⁶The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.

¹⁷There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.

¹⁸The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog.

¹⁹He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.

²⁰You appointed darkness, and it has become night; all the beasts of the forest will cross through it.

²¹The young lions will roar, while searching for and seizing their meal from God.

²²The sun arose, and they were gathered together; and in their dens, they will lie down together.

²³Man will go forth to his work and to his activities, until the evening.

²⁴How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions.

²⁵This sea is great and its hands are spacious. There are creeping things without number: the small animals with the great.

²⁶There, the ships will pass by this sea-serpent that you have formed to mock them.

²⁷All these expect you to give them food in due time.

²⁸What you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, they will all be filled with goodness.

²⁹But if you turn your face away, they will be disturbed. You will take away their breath, and they will fail, and they will return to their dust.

³⁰You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the Lord be for all ages. The Lord will rejoice in his works.

³²He considers the earth, and he makes it tremble. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am.

³⁴May my speech be pleasing to him. Truly, I will take delight in the Lord.

³⁵Let sinners fade away from the earth, along with the unjust, so that they may not be. Bless the Lord, O my soul.

Psalms 103

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

⁵Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

⁷He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

⁸The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

⁹He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

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

¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

¹⁷But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

¹⁹The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

²⁰Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

²¹Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

²²Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.