Psalms 104
1 to bless soul my [obj] LORD LORD God my to magnify much splendor and glory to clothe
[I tell] myself that I should praise Yahweh. Yahweh, my God, you are very great! Like a king has on his royal robes [MET], you have honor and majesty/greatness all around you!
2 to enwrap light like/as garment to stretch heaven like/as curtain
You [created/caused] light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like [a man sets up] a tent.
3 [the] to lay beams in/on/with water upper room his [the] to set: make cloud chariot his [the] to go: walk upon wing spirit: breath
You made/put your home [in heaven], above the rain clouds in the sky, [like a man puts the] rafters of his house in place [MET]. You made/caused the clouds to be like chariots [to carry you].
4 to make messenger his spirit: breath to minister him fire to kindle
You caused the winds to be [like] your messengers [MET], and flames of fire to be [like] your servants.
5 to found land: country/planet upon foundation her not to shake forever: enduring and perpetuity
You placed the world firmly on its foundation so that it can never be moved/shaken.
6 abyss like/as clothing to cover him upon mountain: mount to stand: stand water
[Later], you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket, with the water that covered the mountains.
7 from rebuke your to flee [emph?] from voice: sound thunder your to hurry [emph?]
[But] when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded; your voice spoke like thunder, and then the waters rushed away.
8 to ascend: rise mountain: mount to go down valley to(wards) place this to found to/for them
Mountains rose up [from the water], and the valleys sank down to the levels that you had determined for them.
9 border: boundary to set: make not to pass [emph?] not to return: again [emph?] to/for to cover [the] land: country/planet
[Then] you set a boundary for the oceans, a boundary that they cannot cross; their water will never again cover the [whole] earth.
10 [the] to send: depart spring in/on/with torrent: valley between mountain: mount to go: walk [emph?]
You make/cause springs to pour [water] into ravines; their [water] flows down between the mountains.
11 to water: watering all living thing field to break wild donkey thirst their
Those [streams] provide water for all the animals [to drink]; the wild donkeys [drink the water and] are no longer thirsty.
12 upon them bird [the] heaven to dwell from between: among branch to give: do voice
Birds make their nests alongside [the streams], and they sing among the branches [of the trees].
13 to water: watering mountain: mount from upper room his from fruit deed: work your to satisfy [the] land: country/planet
From (your home in heaven/the sky) you send rain down on the mountains, and you fill the earth with many good things that you create.
14 to spring grass to/for animal and vegetation to/for service: work [the] man to/for to come out: send food from [the] land: country/planet
You make/cause grass to grow for the cattle [to eat], and you make/cause plants to grow for people. In that way [animals and people] get their food from [what grows in] the soil.
15 and wine to rejoice heart human to/for to shine face from oil and food: bread heart human to support
We get [grapes to make] [MTY] wine to [drink and] make us cheerful, and we get [olives to make] [MTY] olive oil to [put on our] skin and cause it to shine, and we get [grain to make] [MTY] bread to give us strength.
16 to satisfy tree LORD cedar Lebanon which to plant
Yahweh, you [send plenty of rain to] water your trees, the cedar [trees] that you planted in Lebanon.
17 which there bird to make a nest stork cypress house: home her
Birds make their nests in those [trees]; even storks make their nests in pine/fir trees.
18 mountain: mount [the] high to/for goat crag refuge to/for rock badger
High up in the mountains the wild goats live, and hyraxes/badgers live in the crags/crevices in the rocks.
19 to make moon to/for meeting: time appointed sun to know entrance his
[Yahweh], you made the moon to indicate the times for our festivals, and you made the sun that knows when to go down.
20 to set: make darkness and to be night in/on/with him to creep all living thing wood
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals in the forest prowl around, [looking for food].
21 [the] lion to roar to/for prey and to/for to seek from God food their
At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey, [but] they depend on you to give them food.
22 to rise [the] sun to gather [emph?] and to(wards) habitation their to stretch [emph?]
At dawn, they go back to their dens and lie down.
23 to come out: come man to/for work his and to/for service: work his till evening
And during the daytime, people go to their work; they work until it is evening.
24 what? to multiply deed: work your LORD all their in/on/with wisdom to make to fill [the] land: country/planet acquisition your
Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things! You were [very] wise as you made them all. The earth is full of the creatures that you [made].
25 this [the] sea great: large and broad: wide hand: spacious there creeping and nothing number living thing small with great: large
[We see] the ocean which is very large [DOU]! It is full of many kinds of living creatures, big ones and little ones.
26 there fleet to go: went [emph?] Leviathan this to form: formed to/for to laugh in/on/with him
We see the ships which sail along! We see the huge sea monster, which you made to (splash around/play) in the sea.
27 all their to(wards) you to await [emph?] to/for to give: give food their in/on/with time his
All of those creatures depend on you to give them the food that they need.
28 to give: give to/for them to gather [emph?] to open hand your to satisfy [emph?] good
When you give them the food that they need, they gather it. You give them what you have in your hand, and they [eat it and] are satisfied.
29 to hide face your to dismay [emph?] to gather spirit: breath their to die [emph?] and to(wards) dust their to return: return [emph?]
[But] if you refuse to give food to them, they become terrified. And when you cause them to stop breathing, they die; their bodies [decay and] become soil again.
30 to send: depart spirit your to create [emph?] and to renew face: surface land: soil
When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe, they start to live; you give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
31 to be glory LORD to/for forever: enduring to rejoice LORD in/on/with deed: work his
I want the glory of Yahweh to last forever. I want him to rejoice about [all] the things that he has created.
32 [the] to look to/for land: country/planet and to tremble to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry
He causes the earth to shake [just] by looking at it! By [merely] touching the mountains he makes/causes them to pour out fire and smoke!
33 to sing to/for LORD in/on/with life my to sing to/for God my in/on/with still my
I will sing to Yahweh (as long as I live/throughout my entire life). I will praise my God until the day that I die.
34 to please upon him complaint my I to rejoice in/on/with LORD
I want Yahweh to be pleased by all those things that I have thought [about him], because I rejoice about [knowing] him.
35 to finish sinner from [the] land: country/planet and wicked still nothing they to bless soul my [obj] LORD to boast: praise LORD
[But] I desire that sinners will disappear from the earth, so that there will be no more wicked [people]! [But as for] me, I will praise Yahweh! (Praise him/Hallelujah)!
