Psalm 104:1-35 CEB

[1] Let my whole being bless the LORD! LORD my God, how fantastic you are! You are clothed in glory and grandeur! [2] You wear light like a robe; you open the skies like a curtain. [3] You build your lofty house on the waters; you make the clouds your chariot, going around on the wings of the wind. [4] You make the winds your messengers; you make fire and flame your ministers. [5] You established the earth on its foundations so that it will never ever fall. [6] You covered it with the watery deep like a piece of clothing; the waters were higher than the mountains! [7] But at your rebuke they ran away; they fled in fear at the sound of your thunder. [8] They flowed over the mountains, streaming down the valleys to the place you established for them. [9] You set a boundary they cannot cross so they’ll never again cover the earth. [10] You put gushing springs into dry riverbeds. They flow between the mountains, [11] providing water for every wild animal—the wild donkeys quench their thirst. [12] Overhead, the birds in the sky make their home, chirping loudly in the trees. [13] From your lofty house, you water the mountains. The earth is filled full by the fruit of what you’ve done. [14] You make grass grow for cattle; you make plants for human farming in order to get food from the ground, [15] and wine, which cheers people’s hearts, along with oil, which makes the face shine, and bread, which sustains the human heart. [16] The LORD’s trees are well watered—the cedars of Lebanon, which God planted, [17] where the birds make their nests, where the stork has a home in the cypresses. [18] The high mountains belong to the mountain goats; the ridges are the refuge of badgers. [19] God made the moon for the seasons, and the sun too, which knows when to set. [20] You bring on the darkness and it is night, when every forest animal prowls. [21] The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. [22] When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens. [23] Then people go off to their work, to do their work until evening. [24] LORD, you have done so many things! You made them all so wisely! The earth is full of your creations! [25] And then there’s the sea, wide and deep, with its countless creatures—living things both small and large. [26] There go the ships on it, and Leviathan, which you made, plays in it! [27] All your creations wait for you to give them their food on time. [28] When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled completely full! [29] But when you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to dust. [30] When you let loose your breath, they are created, and you make the surface of the ground brand-new again. [31] Let the LORD’s glory last forever! Let the LORD rejoice in all he has made! [32] He has only to look at the earth, and it shakes. God just touches the mountains, and they erupt in smoke. [33] I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I’m still alive. [34] Let my praise be pleasing to him; I’m rejoicing in the LORD! [35] Let sinners be wiped clean from the earth; let the wicked be no more. But let my whole being bless the LORD! Praise the LORD!