Psalms

1Bless the LORD,my soul.The LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

2He covers himself with light as with a garment.He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

4He makes his messengerswinds,and his servants flames of fire.

5He laid the foundations of the earth,that it should not be moved forever.

6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.The waters stood above the mountains.

7At your rebuke they fled.At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

8The mountains rose,the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

10He sends springs into the valleys.They run among the mountains.

11They give drink to every animal of the field.The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12The birds of the sky nest by them.They sing among the branches.

13He waters the mountains from his rooms.The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

15wine that makes the heart of man glad,oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

16The LORD’s trees are well watered,the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,

17where the birds make their nests.The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

18The high mountains are for the wild goats.The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

19He appointed the moon for seasons.The sun knows when to set.

20You make darkness, and it is night,in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

21The young lions roar after their prey,and seek their food from God.

22The sun rises, and they steal away,and lie down in their dens.

23Man goes out to his work,to his labor until the evening.

24LORD, how many are your works!In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

25There is the sea, great and wide,in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

26There the ships go,and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

27These all wait for you,that you may give them their food in due season.

28You give to them; they gather.You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

29You hide your face; they are troubled.You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

30You send out your Spirit and they are created.You renew the face of the ground.

31Let the LORD’s glory endure forever.Let the LORD rejoice in his works.

32He looks at the earth, and it trembles.He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33I will sing to the LORD as long as I live.I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

34Let my meditation be sweet to him.I will rejoice in the LORD.

35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD,my soul. Praise the LORD!

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1Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

2Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

5Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

6O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

7He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

8He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

9Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

10And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

11Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

13And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

14He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

15Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

16And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

17He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

18They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

19Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

20The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

21He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

22That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

23And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

24And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,

25He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

26He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

27He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

28He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

29He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

30Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

31He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

32He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

33And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

34He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

35And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

36And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.

37And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

39He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

40They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

41He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

42Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

44And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

45That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.