Catholic Public Domain Version

Psalm 103:20-33 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. You appointed darkness, and it has become night; all the beasts of the forest will cross through it.

21. The young lions will roar, while searching for and seizing their meal from God.

22. The sun arose, and they were gathered together; and in their dens, they will lie down together.

23. Man will go forth to his work and to his activities, until the evening.

24. How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions.

25. This sea is great and its hands are spacious. There are creeping things without number: the small animals with the great.

26. There, the ships will pass by this sea-serpent that you have formed to mock them.

27. All these expect you to give them food in due time.

28. What you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, they will all be filled with goodness.

29. But if you turn your face away, they will be disturbed. You will take away their breath, and they will fail, and they will return to their dust.

30. You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth.

31. May the glory of the Lord be for all ages. The Lord will rejoice in his works.

32. He considers the earth, and he makes it tremble. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33. I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am.