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Psalm 104:33-35
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 104:33-35
New Catholic Bible
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;[a]
I will sing praise to my God while I have life.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
for I find my joy in the Lord.
35 May sinners be banished from the earth,
and may the wicked no longer exist.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.[b]
Alleluia.
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:33 I will . . . I live: a perpetual vow to praise the Lord (see note on Ps 7:18).
- Psalm 104:35 Before concluding, the psalmist prays that sin may disappear from creation. However, because the hymn cannot end with a malediction (see Ps 139:19), he repeats the words of verse 1 as a refrain: “Bless the Lord, O my soul.” Alleluia: i.e., “Hallelujah” or “Bless [or praise] the Lord,” which most likely belongs to the beginning of Ps 105 (see Pss 105:45; 106:1, 48).
