20. You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest creep about.
21. The young lions are roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God.
22. When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.
23. Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening.
24. How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.
25. This is the great and wide sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great.
26. There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.
27. They all wait for you to give them their food at the proper time.
28. You give to them; they gather it. You open your hand, they are filled with what is good.
29. You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30. You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
31. May the glory of Yahweh endure forever. May Yahweh be glad in his works,
32. the one who looks at the earth and it quakes, and touches the mountains and they smoke.
33. I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praise to my God while I remain alive.
34. May my meditation be pleasing to him. I will be glad in Yahweh.
35. Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and the wicked not remain alive. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah.