Psalms 136:9 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 136:9

The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

KJV

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ASV

The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

WEB

the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.

YLT

The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age is His kindness.

DBT

The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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4 verses on the floor

Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Psalms 89:36–37
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Psalms 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. 16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 136:9PSA 8:3 GEN 1:1
PSA 136:9PSA 8:3 PSA 33:6
PSA 136:9PSA 8:3 PSA 104:19
PSA 136:9PSA 8:3 PSA 111:2
PSA 136:9PSA 8:3 PSA 89:11
PSA 136:9JOB 31:26 EZE 8:16
PSA 136:9JOB 31:26 DEU 4:19
PSA 136:9JOB 31:26 DEU 17:3

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