Ps.104.1

O my soul, bless GOD! GOD, my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed,

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Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

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Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty,

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Praise the LORD, I tell myself; O LORD my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and with majesty;

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Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent.

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He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

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Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

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you are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

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You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind--wings.

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and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

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He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,

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you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariots; you ride upon the wings of the wind.

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You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors.

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He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.

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Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.

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The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants.

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You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever.

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He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

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You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever,

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You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.

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You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters;

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

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You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.

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You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

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Then you roared and the water ran away--your thunder crash put it to flight.

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But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

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At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

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At the sound of your rebuke, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it fled away.

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Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them.

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they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.

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They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.

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Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.

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You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded.

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

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You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth.

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Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

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You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills.

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He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains.

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He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills.

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You make the springs pour water into ravines, so streams gush down from the mountains.

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All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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They provide water for all the animals, and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard.

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The birds of the air nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

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By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches.

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The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees.

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You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water.

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He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of his work.

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He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

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You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

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You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land,

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He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate- bringing forth food from the earth:

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He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,

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You cause grass to grow for the cattle. You cause plants to grow for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth--

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wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty.

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wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

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And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart.

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wine to make them glad, olive oil as lotion for their skin, and bread to give them strength.

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GOD's trees are well-watered--the Lebanon cedars he planted.

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The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

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The trees of the LORD are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

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The trees of the LORD are well cared for--the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

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Birds build their nests in those trees; look--the stork at home in the treetop.

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

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Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees.

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There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the firs.

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Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks.

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The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the coneys.

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The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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High in the mountains are pastures for the wild goats, and the rocks form a refuge for rock badgers.