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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:19

In 11 translations

BSB
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
KJV
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
WEB
He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
ASV
He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down.
LSV
He made the moon for seasons, || The sun has known his place of entrance.
YLT
He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.
DBY
He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down.
DRC103:19
He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
GNV
He appoynted the moone for certaine seasons: the sunne knoweth his going downe.
JPS
Who appointedst the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.
LXXE103:19
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עָשָׂ֣ה יָ֭רֵחַ לְמוֹעֲדִ֑ים שֶׁ֝֗מֶשׁ יָדַ֥ע מְבוֹאֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br103:19
Ἐποίησε σελήνην εἰς καιροὺς, ὁ ἥλιος ἔγνω τὴν δύσιν αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
  • Genesis 1:14–18And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years. And let them serve as lights in the expanse of…
  • Psalms 136:7–9He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever. the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever. the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
  • Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
  • Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
  • Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
  • Job 31:26–28if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have…
  • Deuteronomy 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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