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King James Version

Psalms 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Sun;   Thompson Chain Reference - Day;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Night;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Rahab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Leviathan;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Light;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cosmogony;   God;   Sun;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
Christian Standard Bible®
The day is yours, also the night;you established the moon and the sun.
Hebrew Names Version
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
Easy-to-Read Version
You control the day and the night. You made the sun and the moon.
Amplified Bible
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.
American Standard Version
The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Contemporary English Version
You rule the day and the night, and you put the moon and the sun in place.
Complete Jewish Bible
The day is yours, and the night is yours; it was you who established light and sun.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.
King James Version (1611)
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.
English Revised Version
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Berean Standard Bible
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
Lexham English Bible
Yours is the day, yours is the night also. You established light and the sun.
Literal Translation
The day is Yours, the night is also Yours. You have established the light and the sun.
New Century Version
Both the day and the night are yours; you made the sun and the moon.
New English Translation
You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
New King James Version
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
New Living Translation
Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun.
New Life Bible
The day is Yours. And the night is Yours. You have set the light and the sun in their places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(73-16) Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
George Lamsa Translation
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Good News Translation
You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;
New American Standard Bible
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.
New Revised Standard
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.
Darby Translation
The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.
Young's Literal Translation
Thine [is] the day, also Thine [is] the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.
World English Bible
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
Revised Standard Version
Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.
Update Bible Version
The day is yours, the night also is yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
Webster's Bible Translation
The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Bible in Basic English
The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou dyggest vp welles & brokes, thou dryest vp mightie waters.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;You have established the light and the sun.

Contextual Overview

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The day: Psalms 136:7-9, Genesis 1:3-5

prepared: Psalms 8:3, Psalms 19:1-6, Psalms 136:7-9, Genesis 1:14-18, Matthew 5:45

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Genesis 1:16 - to rule Genesis 8:22 - seedtime Deuteronomy 4:19 - which the Lord Deuteronomy 33:14 - the precious Joshua 10:12 - Sun Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Job 38:12 - commanded Psalms 19:2 - night unto Psalms 65:8 - outgoings Psalms 104:20 - makest Psalms 139:9 - dwell Jeremiah 31:35 - which giveth Jeremiah 33:25 - and if 2 Corinthians 4:6 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The day is thine, and the night also is thine,.... He made the one and the other, and divided the one from the other; and can make them longer or shorter, clear or cloudy, as he pleases: and the day of prosperity and night of adversity are at his disposal; all the times of his people and of his church are in his hands; sometimes it is a night of darkness, deadness, sleepiness, and security, as it now is; ere long there will be no more night, but bright day; the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven fold as the light of seven days; and this is to be expected from him whose is the day and the night also, Revelation 21:25. Jarchi interprets the day, of the redemption of Israel; and the night, of distresses and afflictions:

thou hast prepared the light and the sun; first the light, and then the sun; for the light was before the sun; or the luminary, even the sun. Aben Ezra interprets the "light" of the moon, and so the Targum; and Kimchi, both of the moon and of the stars; Jarchi takes the light figuratively to be meant of the light of the law; but it is much better to understand it of the light of the Gospel, which God has prepared, and will send forth more largely in the latter day, whereby the whole earth shall be lightened; and when Christ the "sun" of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings, and who gives both the light of grace and glory to his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The day is thine, the night also is thine - Thou hast universal dominion. All things are under thy control. Thou hast power, therefore, to grant what we desire of thee.

Thou hast prepared the light and the sun - He who has made the sun - that greatest and noblest object of creation to the view of man - must have almighty power, and must be able to give what we need.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 74:16. The day is thine, the night also is thine — Thou art the Author of light, and of the sun, which is the means of dispensing it.


 
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