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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:22

In 11 translations

BSB
The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
KJV
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
WEB
The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.
ASV
The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens.
LSV
The sun rises, they are gathered, || And they crouch in their dens.
YLT
The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.
DBY
The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.
DRC103:22
The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.
GNV
When the sunne riseth, they retire, and couche in their dennes.
JPS
The sun ariseth, they slink away, and couch in their dens.
LXXE103:22
The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תִּזְרַ֣ח הַ֭שֶּׁמֶשׁ יֵאָסֵפ֑וּן וְאֶל־מְ֝עוֹנֹתָ֗ם יִרְבָּצֽוּן׃
LXX-Br103:22
Ἀνέτειλεν ὁ ἥλιος καὶ συναχθήσονται, καὶ ἐν ταῖς μάνδραις αὐτῶν κοιτασθήσονται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 37:8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
  • Nahum 3:17Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
  • Job 24:13–17Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the…
  • John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

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

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  • 103:22 in some Bibles
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