104:1 Praise the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, you are magnificent. ² 

You are robed in splendor and majesty.

104:2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment.

He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

104:3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. ³ 

He makes the clouds his chariot,

and travels along on the wings of the wind. ⁴ 

104:4 He makes the winds his messengers,

and the flaming fire his attendant. ⁵ 

104:5 He established the earth on its foundations;

it will never be upended.

104:6 The watery deep covered it ⁶  like a garment;

the waters reached ⁷  above the mountains. ⁸ 

104:7 Your shout made the waters retreat;

at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –

104:8 as the mountains rose up,

and the valleys went down –

to the place you appointed for them. ⁹ 

104:9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,

so that they would not cover the earth again. ¹⁰