Psalms 104:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 139:10-12 : 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
  • Gen 1:4-5 : 4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:21-27
    7 verses
    79%

    21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

    22The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

    23Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

    24O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

    25[So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

    26There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.

    27These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

  • Ps 104:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks for the conies.

    19¶ He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

  • 8Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

  • 10Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • 9¶ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.

  • 20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

  • 12They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

  • 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • 16The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • 72%

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

  • 12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.

  • 22A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

  • 28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • 16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

  • 11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

  • 9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

  • 8They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 11Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 2Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

  • 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

  • 29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • 10But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

  • 24¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

  • 18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

  • 20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

  • 8They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

  • 29For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

  • 12Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 20[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • 13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

  • 14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

  • 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • 30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  • 10For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

  • 20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.