O Lord My God, You Are Very Great

¹lBless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, you are mvery great!

nYou are clothed with splendor and majesty,

²covering yourself with light as with a garment,

ostretching out the heavens plike a tent.

³He qlays the beams of his rchambers on the waters;

he makes sthe clouds his chariot;

he rides on tthe wings of the wind;

⁴he umakes his messengers winds,

his vministers wa flaming fire.

⁵He xset the earth on its foundations,

so that it should never be moved.

⁶You ycovered it with the deep as with a garment;

the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At zyour rebuke they fled;

at athe sound of your thunder they btook to flight.

⁸The mountains rose, the valleys sank down

to the place that you cappointed for them.

⁹You set da boundary that they may not pass,

so that they emight not again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs gush forth in the valleys;

they flow between the hills;

¹¹they fgive drink to every beast of the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;

they sing among the branches.

¹³gFrom your lofty abode you hwater the mountains;

the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

¹⁴You cause ithe grass to grow for the livestock

and jplants for man to cultivate,

that he may bring forth kfood from the earth

¹⁵and lwine to gladden the heart of man,

moil to make his face shine

and bread to nstrengthen man's heart.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,

othe cedars of Lebanon pthat he planted.

¹⁷In them the birds build their nests;

the stork has her home in the fir trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for qthe wild goats;

the rocks are a refuge for rthe rock badgers.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the sseasons;1

the sun knows its time for setting.

²⁰tYou make darkness, and it is night,

when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

²¹uThe young lions roar for their prey,

seeking their food from God.

²²When the sun rises, they steal away

and lie down in their vdens.

²³wMan goes out to his work

and to his labor until the evening.

²⁴O Lord, how manifold are your works!

In xwisdom have you made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, great and wide,

ywhich teems with creatures innumerable,

living things both small and great.

²⁶There go the ships,

and zLeviathan, which you formed to aplay in it.2

²⁷These ball look to you,

to cgive them their food in due season.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it up;

when you dopen your hand, they are filled with good things.

²⁹When you ehide your face, they are fdismayed;

when you gtake away their breath, they die

and hreturn to their dust.

³⁰When you isend forth your Spirit,3 they are created,

and you jrenew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the Lord kendure forever;

may the Lord lrejoice in his works,

³²who looks on the earth and it mtrembles,

who ntouches the mountains and they smoke!

³³I will sing to the Lord oas long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

³⁴May my pmeditation be pleasing to him,

for I rejoice in the Lord.

³⁵Let qsinners be consumed from the earth,

and let the wicked be no more!

rBless the Lord, O my soul!

sPraise the Lord!