Psalms 104:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

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  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 139:10-12 : 10 Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.
  • Gen 1:4-5 : 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God separated 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 remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, 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 on a thousand hills.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead to 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 food from God.

    22The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and lie down in their dens.

    23Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

    24O LORD, how manifold are Your works! in wisdom You have made them all: the earth is full of Your riches.

    25This great and wide sea, in which are creeping things innumerable, both small and great beasts.

    26There go the ships: there is Leviathan, which You have made to play there.

    27These all wait for You, that You may give them their food 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.

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Ps 104:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

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

    19He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its setting.

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

  • 10Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds;

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • 9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you 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 near because of darkness.

  • 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • 16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.

  • 72%

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

  • 12And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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

  • 28For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • 16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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

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

  • 8Those also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid at Your signs; You make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

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

    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 2Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:

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

  • 29You hide Your face, they are troubled: You take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • 10But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

  • 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so.

  • 18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate 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 to the place which You have founded for them.

  • 29For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

  • 12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

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

  • 13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

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

  • 22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings 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 looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • 10For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

  • 20The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.