27 These all look to You,
to give them their food in due season.
28 When You give it to them, they gather it up;
when You open Your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
when You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 When You send forth Your Spirit, they are created,
and You renew the face of the ground.
31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in His works,
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke!
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
and let the wicked be no more!
Bless the Lord, O my soul!
Praise the Lord!
In these verses, "these'', "them" and "they" all refer to all that God has created, see verses 1-26 for beautiful descriptions of God's creation. All created things look to God for their food, and all that is needed to sustain life. When God provides abundantly, His creation "gathers it up", and when God "hides His face" all created things "are dismayed." Verse 29b makes this very clear: God has numbered the days of everything He has created. All things live and die at God's will. Verse 30 adds that all life is created, sustained and renewed by God's Holy Spirit.
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