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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:20

In 11 translations

BSB
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
KJV
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.beasts…: Heb. beasts thereof do trample on the forest
WEB
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
ASV
Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
LSV
You set darkness, and it is night, || Every beast of the forest creeps in it.
YLT
Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.
DBY
Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:
DRC103:20
Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:
GNV
Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.
JPS
Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
LXXE103:20
Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad:

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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
תָּֽשֶׁת־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וִ֣יהִי לָ֑יְלָה בּֽוֹ־תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָֽעַר׃
LXX-Br103:20
Ἔθου σκότος καὶ ἐγένετο νὺξ, ἐν αὐτῇ διελεύσονται πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ δρυμοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
  • Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
  • Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
  • Genesis 1:4–5And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
  • Psalms 50:10for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • Psalms 139:10–12even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like…
  • Amos 1:13This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

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

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