Psalms 104:20 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 104:20

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

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ASV

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

WEB

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

YLT

Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

DBT

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:

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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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14 verses on the floor

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Psalms 65:8
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

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Satisfied - By this means all the parts of the earth, are made fruitful. The fruit - With the effects of those sweet showers. Oil - He alludes to the custom of those times and places, which was upon festival occasions to anoint their faces with oil.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

): Thou makes darkness and it is night, which, though black, contributes to the beauty of nature, and is as a foil to the light of the day; and under the protection of the night all the beasts of the forest creep forth to feed, which they are afraid to do in the day, God having put the fear and dread of man upon every beast of the earth ( Gen. ix.

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 104:20ISA 45:7 ECC 7:13-14
PSA 104:20ISA 45:7 AMO 3:6
PSA 104:20ISA 45:7 PSA 75:7
PSA 104:20ISA 45:7 JOB 2:10
PSA 104:20GEN 8:22 JAS 5:7
PSA 104:20ISA 45:7 ISA 31:2
PSA 104:20GEN 8:22 PSA 74:16-17
PSA 104:20GEN 8:22 JER 5:24

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