Psalms 104:28-35

Context

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 thoughts⁶ be pleasing to him!

I will rejoice in the Lord.

104:35 May sinners disappear⁷ from the earth,

and the wicked vanish!

Praise the Lord, O my soul!

Praise the Lord!

[104:28] ¹tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”

[104:29] ²tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

[104:31] ³tn Heb “be forever.”

[104:31] ⁴tn Or “rejoice in his works.”

[104:33] ⁵tn Heb “in my duration.”

[104:34] ⁶tn That is, the psalmist’s thoughts as expressed in his songs of praise.

[104:35] ⁷tn Or “be destroyed.”