1 Bendize, ó minha alma, o Senhor! Senhor, meu Deus, vós sois imensamente grande! De majestade e esplendor vos revestis,
2 envolvido de luz como de um manto. Vós estendestes o céu qual pavilhão,
3 acima das águas fixastes vossa morada. De nuvens fazeis vosso carro, andais nas asas do vento;
4 fazeis dos ventos os vossos mensageiros, e dos flamejantes relâmpagos vossos ministros.
5 Fundastes a terra em bases sólidas que são eternamente inabaláveis.
6 Vós a tínheis coberto com o manto do oceano, as águas ultrapassavam as montanhas.
7 Mas à vossa ameaça elas se afastaram, ao estrondo de vosso trovão estremeceram.
8 Elevaram-se as montanhas, sulcaram-se os vales nos lugares que vós lhes destinastes.
9 Estabelecestes os limites, que elas não hão de ultrapassar, para que não mais tornem a cobrir a terra.
10 Mandastes as fontes correr em riachos, que serpeiam por entre os montes.
11 Ali vão beber os animais dos campos, neles matam a sede os asnos selvagens.
12 Os pássaros do céu vêm aninhar em suas margens, e cantam entre as folhagens.
13 Do alto de vossas moradas derramais a chuva nas montanhas, do fruto de vossas obras se farta a terra.
14 Fazeis brotar a relva para o gado, e plantas úteis ao homem, para que da terra possa extrair o pão
15 e o vinho que alegra o coração do homem, o óleo que lhe faz brilhar o rosto e o pão que lhe sustenta as forças.
16 As árvores do Senhor são cheias de seiva, assim como os cedros do Líbano que ele plantou.
17 Lá constroem as aves os seus ninhos, nos ciprestes a cegonha tem sua casa.
18 Os altos montes dão abrigo às cabras, e os rochedos aos arganazes.
19 Fizestes a lua para indicar os tempos; o sol conhece a hora de se pôr.
20 Mal estendeis as trevas e já se faz noite, entram a rondar os animais das selvas.
21 Rugem os leõezinhos por sua presa, e pedem a Deus o seu sustento.
22 Mas se retiram ao raiar do sol, e vão se deitar em seus covis.
23 É então que o homem sai para o trabalho, e moureja até o entardecer.
24 Ó Senhor, quão variadas são as vossas obras! Feitas, todas, com sabedoria, a terra está cheia das coisas que criastes.
25 Eis o mar, imenso e vasto, onde, sem conta, se agitam animais grandes e pequenos.
26 Nele navegam as naus e o Leviatã que criastes para brincar nas ondas.
27 Todos esses seres esperam de vós que lhes deis de comer em seu tempo.
28 Vós lhes dais e eles o recolhem; abris a mão, e se fartam de bens.
29 Se desviais o rosto, eles se perturbam; se lhes retirais o sopro, expiram e voltam ao pó donde saíram.
30 Se enviais, porém, o vosso sopro, eles revivem e renovais a face da terra.
31 Ao Senhor, glória eterna; alegre-se o Senhor em suas obras!
32 Ele, cujo olhar basta para fazer tremer a terra, e cujo contato inflama as montanhas.
33 Enquanto viver, cantarei à glória do Senhor, salmodiarei ao meu Deus enquanto existir.
34 Possam minhas palavras lhe ser agradáveis! Minha única alegria se encontra no Senhor.
35 Sejam tirados da terra os pecadores e doravante desapareçam os ímpios. Bendize, ó minha alma, ao Senhor! Aleluia.
1 Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.
2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
4 He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.
5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
7 At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;
8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.
12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.
13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
16 The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;
17 Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
18 The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.
19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.
22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
24 O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.
25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.
28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
30 If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.
31 Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:
32 At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.
33 I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
34 Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
35 Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.