Psalms 104:1
Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great, clad in awful splendor,
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2covered with robe of light. You stretch out the heavens like the cloth of a tent.
Cross References
Psalms 29:1Ascribe to the Lord, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and power
Psalms 95:3For the Lord is a great God, king above all gods.
Psalms 103:1O my soul, bless the Lord; and all that is in me, his holy name.
Psalms 104:35But may sinners be swept from the earth, and the wicked vanish forever. O my soul, bless the Lord. Hallelujah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 104:1
It is very probable that this psalm was penned by the same hand, and at the same time, as the former; for as that ended this begins, with "Bless the Lord, O my soul!" and concludes with it too. The style indeed is somewhat different, because the matter is so: the scope of the foregoing psalm was to celebrate the goodness of God and his tender mercy and compassion, to which a soft and sweet style was most agreeable; the scope of this is to celebrate his greatness, and majesty, and sovereign dominion, which ought to… Read the whole commentary →