Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
BSB
ASV
The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
KJV
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
(2.) He that is faithful to his covenant with the day and with the night, and preserves the ordinances of heaven inviolable will certainly make good his promise to his people and never cast off those whom he has chosen, Jer. xxxi. His covenant with Abraham and his seed is as firm as that with Noah and his sons, Gen. viii.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
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The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is…
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
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Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
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Thus 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…
And 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.
He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.