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📚✭Praise the LORD, O my soul.O LORD my God,
you are very great.
You are clothed with honour
and majesty,
2 📚✭You who cover
yourself with light as
with a garment,
who stretch out the heavens
like a curtain.
3 📚He lays the beams
of his chambers in the
waters.
He makes the clouds
his chariot.
He walks on the wings
of the wind.
4 📚He makes his angels spirits,
his ministers a flaming fire.
5 📚✭He laid the
foundations of the earth,
so that it would never
be moved.
6 📚You cover it with the deep
as with a garment.
The waters stood above
the mountains.
7 📚At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder
they hurried away.
8 📚They went up over the
mountains;
they went down by the valleys
to the place which you founded
for them.
9 📚You have set a boundary that
they may not pass over,
so that they do not turn back
to cover the earth.
10 📚✭He sends water from
the springs into the
valleys,
which runs among
the hills.
11 📚They provide drink to every
beast of the field;
the wild donkeys quench their
thirst.
12 📚The birds of the heavens
have their nests
by them,
singing among the branches.
13 📚He waters the hills from
his chambers.
The earth is filled with the fruit
of your works.
14 📚✭He causes the grass to grow
for the cattle,
and plants for the service
of man,
so that he may bring food out
of the earth,
15 📚And wine that makes
the heart of man glad,
and oil to make
his face shine,
and bread which
strengthens man’s heart.
16 📚✭The trees of the LORD are full
of sap;
the cedars of Lebanon which
he has planted,
17 📚✭Where the birds make
their nests.
As for the stork,
the fir trees are her
house.
18 📚The high hills are a
refuge for the wild goats,
and the rocks for the rock
badgers.
19 📚✭✭He appointed the moon for
seasons.
The sun knows its going down.
20 📚You make darkness,
and it is night,
in which all the beasts of the
forest creep forth.
21 📚The young lions roar
after their prey,
and seek their food from God.
22 📚The sun rises;
they gather together,
and lie down in their dens.
23 📚Man goes forth to his work
and to his labour until
the evening.
24 📚✭O LORD, how manifold are
your works!
In wisdom you have made
them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
25 📚So is this great
and wide sea,
in which teem
innumerable things,
both small and great creatures.
26 📚There go the ships.
There is that leviathan✭,
which you have made
to play there.
27 📚✭These all wait on you,
that you may give
them their food
in due season.
28 📚They gather what you
give them.
You open your hand; they are
satisfied with good things.
29 📚You hide✭ your face;
they are troubled.
You take away✭ their breath;
they die,
and return to their dust.
30 📚You send forth your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the
face of the earth.
31 📚✭The glory of the LORD will remain
forever.
The LORD will rejoice in his works.
32 📚He looks on the earth,
and it trembles.
He touches the hills,
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 📚My meditation✭ of him
will be sweet.
I will be glad✭ in the LORD.
35 📚✭Let the sinners be consumed
out of the earth,
and let the wicked be no more.
Praise the LORD✭, O my soul!
Praise the LORD!