30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
30 When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
30 When you send forth your Spirit,
30 Send out your Spirit and they spring to life - the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.
30 When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
7 The body is put back in the same ground it came from. The spirit returns to God, who first breathed it.
7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
(Read Ecclesiastes 12:1-7)
We should remember our sins against our Creator, repent, and seek forgiveness. We should remember our duties, and set about them, looking to him for grace and strength. This should be done early, while the body is strong, and the spirits active. When a man has the pain of reviewing a misspent life, his not having given up sin and worldly vanities till he is forced to say, I have no pleasure in them, renders his sincerity very questionable. Then follows a figurative description of old age and its infirmities, which has some difficulties; but the meaning is plain, to show how uncomfortable, generally, the days of old age are. As the four verses, verse 6 notices the circumstances which take place in the hour of death. If sin had not entered into the world, these infirmities would not have been known. Surely then the aged should reflect on the evil of sin.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 104:30
Commentary on Psalm 104:19-30
(Read Psalm 104:19-30)
We are to praise and magnify God for the constant succession of day and night. And see how those are like to the wild beasts, who wait for the twilight, and have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Does God listen to the language of mere nature, even in ravenous creatures, and shall he not much more interpret favourably the language of grace in his own people, though weak and broken groanings which cannot be uttered? There is the work of every day, which is to be done in its day, which man must apply to every morning, and which he must continue in till evening; it will be time enough to rest when the night comes, in which no man can work. The psalmist wonders at the works of God. The works of art, the more closely they are looked upon, the more rough they appear; the works of nature appear more fine and exact. They are all made in wisdom, for they all answer the end they were designed to serve. Every spring is an emblem of the resurrection, when a new world rises, as it were, out of the ruins of the old one. But man alone lives beyond death. When the Lord takes away his breath, his soul enters on another state, and his body will be raised, either to glory or to misery. May the Lord send forth his Spirit, and new-create our souls to holiness.