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Text -- Psalms 104:4-35 (NET)

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104:4 He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant. 104:5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended. 104:6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains. 104:7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off104:8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 104:9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again. 104:10 He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains. 104:11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 104:12 The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. 104:13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow. 104:14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground, 104:15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives. 104:16 The trees of the Lord receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted, 104:17 where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live. 104:18 The wild goats live in the high mountains; the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs. 104:19 He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule. 104:20 You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around. 104:21 The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. 104:22 When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens. 104:23 Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening. 104:24 How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made. 104:25 Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large. 104:26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it. 104:27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis. 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!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Lebanon a mountain range and the adjoining regions (IBD)
 · Leviathan a twisting aquatic monster, possibly the crocodile of the Nile, and used symbolically of Assyria and Babylonia (by the twisting Euphrates River IBD).


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NET Notes: Psa 104:4 In Ugaritic mythology Yam’s messengers appear as flaming fire before the assembly of the gods. See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 42...

NET Notes: Psa 104:6 Verse 6 refers to the condition described in Gen 1:2 (note the use of the Hebrew term תְּהוֹם [tÿhom, &...

NET Notes: Psa 104:8 Verses 7-8 poetically depict Gen 1:9-10.

NET Notes: Psa 104:9 Heb “a boundary you set up, they will not cross, they will not return to cover the earth.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:10 Heb “[the] one who sends springs into streams.” Another option is to translate, “he sends streams [i.e., streams that originate from...

NET Notes: Psa 104:12 Heb “among the thick foliage they give a sound.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:13 Heb “from the fruit of your works the earth is full.” The translation assumes that “fruit” is literal here. If “fruit...

NET Notes: Psa 104:14 Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:15 Heb “and food [that] sustains the heart of man.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:16 Heb “are satisfied,” which means here that they receive abundant rain (see v. 13).

NET Notes: Psa 104:17 The cedars and evergreens of the Lebanon forest are frequently associated (see, for example, 2 Chr 2:8; Isa 14:8; 37:24; Ezek 31:8).

NET Notes: Psa 104:18 Heb “the high mountains [are] for the goats.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:19 Heb more metaphorically, “knows its setting.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:20 Heb “you make darkness, so that it might be night.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:21 The lions’ roaring is viewed as a request for food from God.

NET Notes: Psa 104:22 Heb “lie down.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:23 Heb “man goes out to his work, and to his labor until evening.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:24 Heb “all of them with wisdom you have made.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:25 Heb “where [there are] swimming things, and without number.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:26 Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces host...

NET Notes: Psa 104:27 Heb “to give their food in its time.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:28 Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:29 Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:31 Or “rejoice in his works.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:33 Heb “in my duration.”

NET Notes: Psa 104:34 That is, the psalmist’s thoughts as expressed in his songs of praise.

NET Notes: Psa 104:35 Or “be destroyed.”

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