How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

1O my soul, bless YHWH!

O YHWH my God, You are very great;

with honor and majesty You are clothed.

2Covering Himself with light as a garment,

stretching out the heavens like a curtain,

3the One laying the beams in the waters

of His upper chambers,

the One making the clouds His chariot,

the One walking on the wings of the wind,

4making the winds His messengers,

His servants flaming fire.†

5He set the earth upon its foundations;

it should not be shaken forever and ever.

6The deep, as with a garment You covered it;

upon the mountains the waters were standing.

7From Your rebuke they fled;

from the voice of Your thunder they hurried away.

8Upon the mountains, the valleys sank down,

to the place that You established for them.

9You have set a boundary that they may not cross over;

they may never return to cover the earth.

10He sends the springs into the valleys;

they flow between the hills.

11They give drink to every beast of the field;

the wild donkeys break their thirst.

12Nearby them the birds of the heavens are dwelling;

from between the branches they give forth a voice.

13Watering the hills from His upper chambers;

with the fruit of Your works the earth is satisfied—

14causing the grass to sprout for the cattle,

and vegetation for the service of man,

to bring forth food from the earth,

15and wine makes glad the heart of man,

to make his face shine from oil,

and bread supports the heart of man.

16The trees of YHWH are satisfied,

the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

17where in the birds make their nests;

the stork—the cypresses† are her house.

18The high mountains are for the wild goats;

the crags a refuge for the rock badgers.†

19He made the moon for appointed times;

the sun knows its entrance.

20You make darkness, and it becomes night;

in it all the living things of the forest creep about.

21The young lions roar for the prey

and seek their food from God.

22The sun rises, they are gathered;

and in their dens they stretch out.

23Man goes out to his work,

and to his labor until the evening.

24How many are Your works, O YHWH!

All of them You have made in wisdom;

the earth is full of Your creatures.

25This is the sea, great and wide—

in it are teeming things, and without number,

living things small with the great.

26There the ships go about,

and Leviathan, which You formed to play in it.

27All of them look to You,

to give their food, in its season.

28You give to them,

and they gather in;

You open Your hand,

and they are satisfied with good.

29You hide Your face—

they are troubled;

You gather their spirit—

they die, and to their dust they return.

30You send forth Your Spirit†—

they are created,

and You renew

the face of the earth.

31May the glory of YHWH be forever;

may YHWH rejoice in His works—

32the One looking on the earth,

and it trembles;

He touches the mountains,

and they smoke.

33I will sing to YHWH during my life;

I will sing praise to my God while I live!

34May my melody be pleasing to Him;

I rejoice in YHWH.

35May the sinful ones be consumed from the earth,

and the wicked shall not be anymore!

O my soul, bless YHWH!

Hallelu YAH!†