Psalm 102-104

American Standard Version

102 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,
And let my cry come unto thee.
² Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:
Incline thine ear unto me;
In the day when I call answer me speedily.
³ For my days consume away ^[b]like smoke,
And my bones are burned ^[c]as a firebrand.
⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;
For I forget to eat my bread.
⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning
My bones cleave to my flesh.
⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am become as an owl of the waste places.
⁷ I watch, and am become like a sparrow
That is alone upon the house-top.
⁸ Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
They that are mad against me do curse by me.
⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,
¹⁰ Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
¹¹ My days are like a shadow that ^[d]declineth;
And I am withered like grass.

103 Bless Jehovah, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless his holy name.
² Bless Jehovah, O my soul,
And forget not all his benefits:
³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
Who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from ^[i]destruction;
Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
⁵ Who satisfieth ^[j]thy desire with good things,
So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
⁶ Jehovah executeth righteous acts,
And judgments for all that are oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses,
His doings unto the children of Israel.
⁸ Jehovah is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
⁹ He will not always chide;
Neither will he keep his anger for ever.
¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us after our sins,
Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
¹² As far as the east is from the west,
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children,
So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame;
He remembereth that we are dust.
¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
¹⁷ But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
And his righteousness unto children’s children;
¹⁸ To such as keep his covenant,
And to those that remember his precepts to do them.
¹⁹ Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens;
And his kingdom ruleth over all.
²⁰ Bless Jehovah, ye his angels,
That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word,
Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
²¹ Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts,
Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
²² Bless Jehovah, all ye his works,
In all places of his dominion:
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.

104 Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
O Jehovah my God, thou art very great;
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty:
² Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment;
Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
³ Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters;
Who maketh the clouds his chariot;
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
⁴ Who maketh ^[k]winds his messengers;
Flames of fire his ministers;
^5 [l]Who laid the foundations of the earth,
That it should not be moved for ever.
⁶ Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture;
The waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ At thy rebuke they fled;
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away
^8 [m](The mountains rose, the valleys sank down)
Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;
That they turn not again to cover the earth.
¹⁰ He sendeth forth springs into the valleys;
They run among the mountains;
¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild asses quench their thirst.
¹² By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation;
They ^[n]sing among the branches.
¹³ He watereth the mountains from his chambers:
The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.
¹⁴ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,
And herb for the ^[o]service of man;
That he may bring forth ^[p]food out of the earth,
¹⁵ And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,
^[q]And oil to make his face to shine,
And bread that strengtheneth man’s heart.
¹⁶ The trees of Jehovah are filled with moisture,
The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests:
As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.
¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats;
The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons:
The sun knoweth his going down.
²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night,
Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
²¹ The young lions roar after their prey,
And seek their food from God.
²² The sun ariseth, they get them away,
And lay them down in their dens.
²³ Man goeth forth unto his work
And to his labor until the evening.
²⁴ O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made them all:
The earth is full of thy ^[r]riches.
²⁵ Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
Wherein are things creeping innumerable,
Both small and great beasts.
²⁶ There go the ships;
There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play ^[s]therein.
²⁷ These wait all for thee,
That thou mayest give them their food in due season.
²⁸ Thou givest unto them, they gather;
Thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled;
Thou ^[t]takest away their breath, they die,
And return to their dust.
³⁰ Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created;
And thou renewest the face of the ground.
³¹ Let the glory of Jehovah endure for ever;
Let Jehovah rejoice in his works:
³² Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth;
He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
³³ I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live:
I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
³⁴ Let my meditation be sweet unto him:
I will rejoice in Jehovah.
³⁵ Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
^[u]Praise ye Jehovah.