104:28 You give food to them and they receive it;
you open your hand and they are filled with food. 1
104:29 When you ignore them, they panic. 2
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! 3
May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made! 4
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! 5
104:34 May my thoughts 6 be pleasing to him!
I will rejoice in the Lord.
104:35 May sinners disappear 7 from the earth,
and the wicked vanish!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
Praise the Lord!
1 tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”
2 tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”
3 tn Heb “be forever.”
4 tn Or “rejoice in his works.”
5 tn Heb “in my duration.”
6 tn That is, the psalmist’s thoughts as expressed in his songs of praise.
7 tn Or “be destroyed.”