all His hosts,
His servants who do His will;
22bless the LORD, all His works,
through the length and breadth of His realm;
bless the LORD, O my soul.
104 Bless the LORD, O my soul;
O LORD, my God, You are very great;
You are clothed in glory and majesty,
2wrapped in a robe of light;
You spread the heavens like a tent cloth.
3He sets the rafters of His lofts in the waters,
makes the clouds His chariot,
moves on the wings of the wind.
4He makes the winds His messengers,
fiery flames His servants.
5He established the earth on its foundations,
so that it shall never totter.
6You made the deep cover it as a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7They fled at Your blast,
rushed away at the sound of Your thunder,
8—mountains rising, valleys sinking—
to the place You established for them.
9You set bounds they must not pass
so that they never again cover the earth.
10You make springs gush forth in torrents;
they make their way between the hills,
11giving drink to all the wild beasts;
the wild asses slake their thirst.
12The birds of the sky dwell beside them
and sing among the foliage.
13You water the mountains from Youra lofts;
the earth is sated from the fruit of Your work.
14You make the grass grow for the cattle,
and herbage for man’s labor
that he may get food out of the earth—
15wine that cheers the hearts of men
b-oil that makes the face shine,-b
and bread that sustains man’s life.
16The trees of the LORD drink their fill,
the cedars of Lebanon, His own planting,
17where birds make their nests;
the stork has her home in the junipers.
18The high mountains are for wild goats;
the crags are a refuge for rock-badgers.
19He made the moon to mark the seasons;
the sun knows when to set.
20You bring on darkness and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forests stir.
21The lions roar for prey,
seeking their food from God.
22When the sun rises, they come home
and couch in their dens.
23Man then goes out to his work,
to his labor until the evening.
24How many are the things You have made, O LORD;
You have made them all with wisdom;
the earth is full of Your creations.
25There is the sea, vast and wide,
with its creatures beyond number,
living things, small and great.
26There go the ships,
and Leviathan that You formed to sport with.
27All of them look to You
to give them their food when it is due.
28Give it to them, they gather it up;
open Your hand, they are well satisfied;
29hide Your face, they are terrified;
take away their breath, they perish
and turn again into dust;
30send back Your breath, they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.
31May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may 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;
all my life I will chant hymns to my God.
34May my prayer be pleasing to Him;
I will rejoice in the LORD.
35May sinners disappear from the earth,
and the wicked be no more.
Bless the LORD, O my soul.
Hallelujah.
105 Praise the LORD;
call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.
2Sing praises to Him;
speak of all His wondrous acts.
3Exult in His holy name;
let all who seek the LORD rejoice.
4Turn to the LORD, to His might;a
seek His presence constantly.
5Remember the wonders He has done,
His portents and the judgments He has pronounced,
6O offspring of Abraham, His servant,
O descendants of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7He is the LORD our God;
His judgments are throughout the earth.
8He is ever mindful of His covenant,
the promise He gave for a thousand generations,
9that He made with Abraham,
swore to Isaac,
10and confirmed in a decree for Jacob,
for Israel, as an eternal covenant,
11saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your allotted heritage.”
12They were then few in number,
a mere handful, sojourning there,
13wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
14He allowed no one to oppress them;
He reproved kings on their account,
15“Do not touch My anointed ones;
do not harm My prophets.”
16He called down a famine on the land,
destroyed every staff of bread.
17He sent ahead of them a man,
Joseph, sold into slavery.
18His feet were subjected to fetters;
an iron collar was put on his neck.
19Until his prediction came true
the decree of the LORD purged him.
20The king sent to have him freed;
the ruler of nations released him.
21He made him the lord of his household,
empowered him over all his possessions,
22to discipline his princes at will,
to teach his elders wisdom.
23Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24He made His people very fruitful,
more numerous than their foes.
25b-He changed their heart-b to hate His people,
to plot against His servants.
26He sent His servant Moses,
and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
27They performed His signs among them,
His wonders, against the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness; it was very dark;
c-did they not defy His word?-c
29He turned their waters into blood
and killed their fish.
30Their land teemed with frogs,
even the rooms of their king.
31Swarms of insects came at His command,
lice, throughout their country.
32He gave them hail for rain,
and flaming fire in their land.
33He struck their vines and fig trees,
broke down the trees of their country.
34Locusts came at His command,
grasshoppers without number.
35They devoured every green thing in the land;
they consumed the produce of the soil.
36He struck down every first-born in the land,
the first fruit of their vigor.
37He led Israeld out with silver and gold;
none among their tribes faltered.
38Egypt rejoiced when they left,
for dread of Israeld had fallen upon them.
39He spread a cloud for a cover,
and fire to light up the night.
40They asked and He brought them quail,
and satisfied them with food from heaven.
41He opened a rock so that water gushed forth;
it flowed as a stream in the parched land.
42Mindful of His sacred promise
to His servant Abraham,
43He led His people out in gladness,
His chosen ones with joyous song.
44He gave them the lands of nations;
they inherited the wealth of peoples,
45that they might keep His laws
and observe His teachings.
Hallelujah.
106 Hallelujah.
Praise the LORD for He is good;
His steadfast love is eternal.
2Who can tell the mighty acts of the LORD,
proclaim all His praises?
3Happy are those who act justly,
who do right at all times.
4Be mindful of me, O LORD, when You favor Your people;
take note of me when You deliver them,
5that I may enjoy the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
share the joy of Your nation,
glory in Your very own people.
6We have sinned like our forefathers;
we have gone astray, done evil.
7Our forefathers in Egypt did not perceive Your wonders;
they did not remember Your abundant love,
but rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
8Yet He saved them, as befits His name,
to make known His might.
9He sent His blast against the Sea of Reeds;
it became dry;
He led them through the deep as through a wilderness.
10He delivered them from the foe,
redeemed them from the enemy.
11Water covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.
12Then they believed His promise,
and sang His praises.
13But they soon forgot His deeds;
they would not wait to learn His plan.
14They were seized with craving in the wilderness,
and put God to the test in the wasteland.
15He gave them what they asked for,
then made them waste away.
16There was envy of Moses in the camp,
and of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
closed over the party of Abiram.
18A fire blazed among their party,
a flame that consumed the wicked.
19They made a calf at Horeb
and bowed down to a molten image.
20They exchanged their glory
for the image of a bull that feeds on grass.
21They forgot God who saved them,
who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,
awesome deeds at the Sea of Reeds.
23He would have destroyed them
had not Moses His chosen one
confronted Him in the breach
to avert His destructive wrath.
24They rejected the desirable land,
and put no faith in His promise.
25They grumbled in their tents
and disobeyed the LORD.
26So He raised His hand in oath
to make them fall in the wilderness,
27to dispersea their offspring among the nations
and scatter them through the lands.
28They attached themselves to Baal Peor,
ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29They provoked anger by their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30Phinehas stepped forth and intervened,
and the plague ceased.
31It was reckoned to his merit
for all generations, to eternity.
32They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribah
and Moses suffered on their account,
33because they rebelled against Him
and he spoke rashly.
34They did not destroy the nations
as the LORD had commanded them,
35but mingled with the nations
and learned their ways.
36They worshiped their idols,
which became a snare for them.
37Their own sons and daughters
they sacrificed to demons.
38They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land was polluted with bloodguilt.
39Thus they became defiled by their acts,
debauched through their deeds.
40The LORD was angry with His people
and He abhorred His inheritance.
41He handed them over to the nations;
their foes ruled them.
42Their enemies oppressed them
and they were subject to their power.
43He saved them time and again,
but they were deliberately rebellious,
and so they were brought low by their iniquity.
44When He saw that they were in distress,
when He heard their cry,
45He was mindful of His covenant
and in His great faithfulness relented.
46He made all their captors kindly disposed toward them.
47Deliver us, O LORD our God,
and gather us from among the nations,
to acclaim Your holy name,
to glory in Your praise.
48Blessed is the LORD, God of Israel,
From eternity to eternity.
Let all the people say, “Amen.”
Hallelujah.

book five

107 “Praise the LORD, for He is good;
His steadfast love is eternal!”
2Thus let the redeemed of the LORD say,
those He redeemed from adversity,
3whom He gathered in from the lands,
from east and west,
from the north and from the sea.
4Some lost their way in the wilderness,
in the wasteland;
they found no settled place.
5Hungry and thirsty,
their spirit failed.
6In their adversity they cried to the LORD,
and He rescued them from their troubles.
7He showed them a direct way
to reach a settled place.
8Let them praise the LORD for His steadfast love,
His wondrous deeds for mankind;
9for He has satisfied the thirsty,
filled the hungry with all