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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 104:24 through Psalm 104:35 (NIV)
24 How many are your works, O LORD!
In wisdom you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.
26 There the ships go to and fro,
and the leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.
27 These all look to you
to give them their food at the proper time.
28 When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.
29 When you hide your face,
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
30 When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may the LORD rejoice in his works—
32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,
who touches the mountains, and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
as I rejoice in the LORD.
35b Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Praise the LORD.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 19-30
We are to praise and magnify God for the constant succession of day and night.
And see how those are like to the wild beasts, who wait for the twilight, and
have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Does God listen to the
language of mere nature, even in ravenous creatures, and shall he not much more
interpret favourably the language of grace in his own people, though weak and
broken groanings which cannot be uttered? There is the work of every day, which
is to be done in its day, which man must apply to every morning, and which he
must continue in till evening; it will be time enough to rest when the night
comes, in which no man can work. The psalmist wonders at the works of God. The
works of art, the more closely they are looked upon, the more rough they appear;
the works of nature appear more fine and exact. They are all made in wisdom, for
they all answer the end they were designed to serve. Every spring is an emblem
of the resurrection, when a new world rises, as it were, out of the ruins of the
old one. But man alone lives beyond death. When the Lord takes away his breath,
his soul enters on another state, and his body will be raised, either to glory
or to misery. May the Lord send forth his Spirit, and new-create our souls to
holiness.
VERSES 31-35
Man’s glory is fading; God’s glory is everlasting: creatures change, but with
the Creator there is no variableness. And if mediation on the glories of
creation be so sweet to the soul, what greater glory appears to the enlightened
mind, when contemplating the great work of redemption! There alone can a sinner
perceive ground of confidence and joy in God. While he with pleasure upholds
all, governs all, and rejoices in all his works, let our souls, touched by his
grace, meditate on and praise him.