Psalms 104:29-35

104:29 When you ignore them, they panic. ¹ 

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! ² 

May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made! ³ 

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! ⁴ 

104:34 May my thoughts ⁵  be pleasing to him!

I will rejoice in the Lord.

104:35 May sinners disappear ⁶  from the earth,

and the wicked vanish!

Praise the Lord, O my soul!

Praise the Lord!

[104:29]  ¹ tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

[104:31]  ² tn Heb “be forever.”

[104:31]  ³ tn Or “rejoice in his works.”

[104:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “in my duration.”

[104:34]  ⁵ tn That is, the psalmist’s thoughts as expressed in his songs of praise.

[104:35]  ⁶ tn Or “be destroyed.”