The Singing That Outlasts the Singer: Creation's Demand for Perpetual Praise — Psalm 104:31-33

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works. He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. — The psalmist stakes his entire existence on the claim that praise is not a response to blessing — it is the reason he has breath.