Psalms 104:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
  • Ps 139:10-12 : 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
  • Gen 1:4-5 : 4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark, 5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:21-27
    7 verses
    79%

    21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

    22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

    23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

    24 O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

    25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

    26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

    27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Ps 104:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

    19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

  • Job 37:8
    75%

    8 Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

  • Ps 148:10
    74%

    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

  • Job 40:20
    73%

    20 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

  • Job 17:12
    73%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • Job 5:14
    72%

    14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Ps 74:16
    72%

    16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • Ps 8:7
    72%

    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    71%

    12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 10:22
    71%

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Ps 18:28
    71%

    28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Ps 18:11
    71%

    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Prov 7:9
    71%

    9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

  • Ps 65:8
    71%

    8 Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 22:11
    70%

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Ps 104:2
    70%

    2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

  • Job 4:13
    70%

    13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

  • Ps 104:29
    70%

    29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • Job 35:10
    70%

    10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

  • Gen 1:24
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    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:18
    69%

    18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 74:20
    69%

    20 Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

  • Ps 104:8
    69%

    8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    69%

    29 For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

  • Ps 17:12
    69%

    12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Amos 5:20
    69%

    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Ps 80:13
    69%

    13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Job 24:14
    69%

    14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

  • Job 12:22
    69%

    22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Isa 5:30
    69%

    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Ps 50:10
    69%

    10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

  • Joel 1:20
    69%

    20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.