From Psalm 104

"He wraps himself in light as with a garment;
he stretches out the heavens like a tent
and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters."

"But at your rebuke the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight . . .
You set a boundary they cannot cross."

"The trees of the Lord are well-watered,
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
There the birds make their nests;
the stork has its home in the pine trees.
The high mountains belong to the wild goats;
the crags are a refuge for the coneys."

"The sun knows when to go down."

"You bring darkness, it becomes night,
and all the beasts of the forest prowl.
The lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God."

"There is the sea . . .
There the ships go to and fro,
and the leviathan, which you formed to frolic there."

"These all look to you
to give them their food at the proper time.
When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.
When you hide your face they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth."

May the glory of the Lord endure forever . . ."


I'm doing a paper on Deism for my US History class, and this is a beautiful rebuke of subtle Deism, that says God wound up the world and let it go. But God sustains the world. I love that the LEVIATHAN frolics, and there are coneys! I had this great book about coneys when I was little, has anyone ever read it? They're little rabbity things who live in coneyland, and they discover that what they thought was a tree in their park is actually a giant carrot. Needless to say, they're thrilled.