Text -- Psalms 104:28-35 (NET)

104:28 You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food. 104:29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust. 104:30 When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground. 104:31 May the splendor of the Lord endure! May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made! 104:32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder. 104:33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist! 104:34 May my thoughts be pleasing to him! I will rejoice in the Lord. 104:35 May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 104:28

¹ tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:29

¹ tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:31

¹ tn Heb “be forever.”

² tn Or “rejoice in his works.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:33

¹ tn Heb “in my duration.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:34

¹ tn That is, the psalmist’s thoughts as expressed in his songs of praise.

NET Notes: Psa 104:35

¹ tn Or “be destroyed.”