1. BLESS (AFFECTIONATELY, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great! You are clothed with honor and majesty–
2. [You are the One] Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain or a tent,
3. Who lays the beams of the upper room of His abode in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
4. Who makes winds His messengers, flames of fire His ministers. [Heb. 1:7.]
5. You laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. [Job 38:4, 6.]
6. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. [Gen. 1:2; II Pet. 3:5.]
7. At Your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
8. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You appointed for them.
9. You have set a boundary [for the waters] which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to deluge the earth.
10. He sends forth springs into the valleys; their waters run among the mountains.
11. They give drink to every [wild] beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst there.
12. Beside them the birds of the heavens have their nests; they sing among the branches. [Matt. 13:32.]
13. He waters the mountains from His upper rooms; the earth is satisfied and abounds with the fruit of His works.