104:10 He turns springs into streams; 1
they flow between the mountains.
104:11 They provide water for all the animals in the field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
104:12 The birds of the sky live beside them;
they chirp among the bushes. 2
104:13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; 3
the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow. 4
104:14 He provides grass 5 for the cattle,
and crops for people to cultivate, 6
so they can produce food from the ground, 7
1 tn Heb “[the] one who sends springs into streams.” Another option is to translate, “he sends streams [i.e., streams that originate from springs] into the valleys” (cf. NIV).
2 tn Heb “among the thick foliage they give a sound.”
3 tn Heb “from his upper rooms.”
4 tn Heb “from the fruit of your works the earth is full.” The translation assumes that “fruit” is literal here. If “fruit” is understood more abstractly as “product; result,” then one could translate, “the earth flourishes as a result of your deeds” (cf. NIV, NRSV, REB).
5 tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”
6 tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).
7 tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”