Psalms 104:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:8 : 8 Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
  • Nah 3:17 : 17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
  • John 3:20 : 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. 15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:18-21
    4 verses
    79%

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

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

    20When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

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

  • Job 37:8
    78%

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

  • Ps 104:23
    78%

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

  • Eccl 1:5
    72%

    5The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

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

  • Job 24:5
    70%

    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • Ps 104:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

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

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16In 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.

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

  • Isa 5:29
    69%

    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Job 39:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

    4Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

  • Job 14:12
    68%

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Job 30:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

    7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

  • Job 40:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20Is 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?

    21Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

  • Dan 6:19
    68%

    19Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

  • Ps 104:27
    68%

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

  • Ps 104:29
    68%

    29If 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 6:17
    68%

    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • Job 17:12
    68%

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

  • Job 7:4
    68%

    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Ps 19:4
    67%

    4Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

  • Num 23:24
    67%

    24See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Ps 104:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

    12The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

  • Job 5:14
    67%

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

  • Ps 59:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

    15Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • Ezek 19:6
    66%

    6And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Amos 3:4
    66%

    4Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • Job 24:14
    66%

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

  • Ps 74:16
    66%

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

  • Ps 10:9
    66%

    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Prov 4:16
    66%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Job 21:26
    66%

    26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Hab 1:15
    66%

    15He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.