It is fitting to praise you, Lord,
giver of all good things,
to thank you for your boundless mercy,
which renews us and makes us whole.
Happy are those who find you
and open themselves to your light.
Every day you appear to us
and reveal your grandeur on the earth.
You create the hills and the mountains
and set them immovably in place.
You silence the roaring of the seas;
you calm the turmoil of the nations.
People to the ends of the earth
are overawed by your wonders;
at the gates of morning and evening
they stand up and shout for joy.
You care for the earth and nourish her,
filling her rivers with your rain.
You send down water to her furrows,
making her ridges settle,
softening her with showers,
and blessing her with new growth.
You make her soil rich and fertile
and ready to bring forth fruit.
You crown the year with abundance;
the earth overflows with your goodness.
The hills are covered with sheep;
the valleys are clothed with grain.
The pastures fill up with lushness,
and the meadows burst into bloom.
They shout their exhilaration;
they sing; they are wild with joy.