Psalm 104 - 21st Century translation by Miriyam Grazer, Ph.D.

[ from Psalms of Jewish Liturgy (Avi Press, 2009):
Bless Adonai, O my soul!
Adonai, my God, You are very great --
With majestic glory Your garment, You dress in light like a robe
and hang the heavens like drapes, from the upper waters You fashion beams
for Your chamber, turning the clouds into a chariot,
riding on wings of the wind.
You turn the winds into messengers, into blazing angels of fire,
as You set the earth on a site from which it will never be shaken.
Once, deep seas covered the land like a cloak -- the waters stood over mountains --
You rebuked them, and they fled --
from the sound of Your thunder they hurried away,
they rose up the mountains, they sank down into valleys --
into the very places You arranged for them, within the boundaries You chose.
So that never again would they cover the earth.
You send springs into rivers and flowing mountain streams --
the wild animals all drink -- wild asses slake their thirst.
Birds of the sky rest above them and send out their song from branches of trees.
You make grass grow to feed cattle, and You make grain so human beings can
bring forth bread from the earth, sustaining the human heart.
You make wine to gladden the human heart, to make faces glisten as if from oil.
The trees of Adonai drink their fill -- the cedars of Lebanon God planted --
birds build their nests there, and storks make their home amid cypress.
High mountains are for the gazelles, cliffs of rock shelter the little shrew mouse.
You made the moon to measure the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
You bring down darkness, and there is night, all the beasts of the forest stir,
young lions roar for their prey, seeking food from You
until, at daylight, the regroup, go back to their dens to lie down,
just as people go out to work to labor until evening.
How great are Your works, Adonai!  You fashioned all life with wisdom,
the earth is filled with Your creations!
Here is the sea, great and wide, where ships sail --
It teems with creatures -- small ones and large --
There is Leviathan You fashioned to frolic with!
All of them look to You to provide food in its season.
When You offer it, they gather it up when You open Your hand,
they are well-satisfied.
But they panic when You hide Your face and when You take away
their breath, they perish --
they return to the dust from whence they've come.
With Your breath, life is created; You renew the face of the earth.
May the glory of Adonai endure forever, may Adonai rejoice forever
in these works, Who makes the world tremble merely by looking,
Who touches the mountains, and they smoke.
I will sing to Adonai as long as I live, all my life I will sing praises to God.
May my words be sweet to the Eternal One.
As for me, I rejoice in Adonai.
May transgressors vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more.
O my soul, Adonai; Praise be to God, Hallelu-Yah!