Psalms 104

Psalms 104:2

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment.

Who art kept from all mortal eyes, by that inaccessible light wherein thou dwellest above:

Psalms 104:3

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Who layeth the floor of his upper loft, which is the higher region of the air, in the clouds; on which, as on some chariot, he seemeth to ride, in that he directs the uncertain motion thereof; and so disposeth of the winds, as ordering their quick and unsteady agitations.

Psalms 104:4

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.

Who maketh those glorious spirits of heaven, his messengers,

Psalms 104:6

Thou coverest it with the deep as with a garment.

In the first creation, thou hadst covered all the face of that, which we now call earth, with the waters, as with a garment that inwrapped it.

Psalms 104:8

They go up by the mountains (or, the mountains ascend, the valleys descend) unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Upon thy command, the waters sunk down into one place, so as, the hills (thereupon appearing) seemed to ascend, and the valleys to go down into their settled hollowness: thither, by thy powerful appointment, did the waters gather themselves, and there abide.

Psalms 104:10

He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

It is he, that causeth the springs to break forth into large rivers, which find passage in the lower plains, betwixt the hills.

Psalms 104:13

He watereth the hills from his chambers.

Out of the chambers of the clouds, he sendeth rain to water the dry and barren hills.

Psalms 104:16

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted.

Those trees, which the Lord hath caused to grow, even those goodly cedars, which he set in Lebanon, are full of sap and thriving moisture, so that they grow tall and spreading.

Psalms 104:18

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and, &c.

He hath given to every creature a several disposition, and a several way and means of life, and hath fitted them with places meet for their disposition; so as, the hills are the refuge for the wild goats, which to other creatures were inaccessible, &c.

Psalms 104:21

And seek their meat from God.

And seek to satisfy their hunger, with that prey, which the providence of God hath ordained for them, without their knowledge and expectation.

Psalms 104:30

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

That spirit of thine, which moved, at the first, upon the face of the waters, is still sent forth by thee, for the renewing of those several creatures, whose daily mortality requires the supply of a continual succession and propagation.

Psalms 104:32

He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

If he do but touch the hills, they smoke for fear of his mighty power, which can shake or remove them, at pleasure.