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- Bless Jehovah, O my soul!
Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour;
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- Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain;
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- Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
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- Who maketh his angels spirits;
his ministers a flame of fire.
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- He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.
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- Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture;
the waters stood above the mountains:
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- At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away;
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- The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them;
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- Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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- He sendeth the springs into the valleys: they run among the mountains;
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- They give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild asses quench their thirst.
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- The birds of heaven dwell by them;
they give forth their voice from among the branches.
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- He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
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- He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man;
bringing forth bread out of the earth,
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- And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man;
making [his] face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.
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- The trees of Jehovah are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,
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- Where the birds make their nests;
[as for] the stork, the fir trees are her house.
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- The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.
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- He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down.
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- Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:
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- The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.
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- The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.
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- Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.
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- How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah!
in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
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- Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great.
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- There go the ships;
[there] that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein.
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- These all look unto thee, that thou mayest give their food in its season:
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- That thou givest unto them, they gather;
thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good.
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- Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled;
thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
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- Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.
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- The glory of Jehovah will endure for ever;
Jehovah will rejoice in his works.
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- He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth;
he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
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- I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live;
I will sing psalms to my God while I have my being.
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- My meditation shall be pleasant unto him;
I will rejoice in Jehovah.
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- Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked shall be no more.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Hallelujah!
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