Psalms 104:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
  • Ps 139:10-12 : 10 even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me. 11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
  • Gen 1:4-5 : 4 God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light“day” and the darkness“night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 This is what the LORD says:“Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped open Gilead’s pregnant women so they could expand their territory.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:21-27
    7 verses
    79%

    21The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

    22When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

    23Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

    24How many living things you have made, O LORD! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

    25Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

    26The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

    27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Ps 104:18-19
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    76%

    18The wild goats live in the high mountains; the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.

    19He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.

  • Job 37:8
    75%

    8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Ps 148:10
    74%

    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Job 38:39-40
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    74%

    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Job 40:20
    73%

    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • Job 17:12
    73%

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Job 5:14
    72%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Ps 74:16
    72%

    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

  • Ps 8:7
    72%

    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    71%

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 10:22
    71%

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Ps 18:28
    71%

    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

  • Ps 18:11
    71%

    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Prov 7:9
    71%

    9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

  • Ps 65:8
    71%

    8Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Job 22:11
    70%

    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    70%

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Ps 104:2
    70%

    2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

  • Job 4:13
    70%

    13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

  • Job 35:10
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    10But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

  • Gen 1:24
    70%

    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

  • Gen 1:18
    69%

    18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 74:20
    69%

    20Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

  • Ps 104:8
    69%

    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    69%

    29Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.

  • Ps 17:12
    69%

    12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

  • Amos 5:20
    69%

    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Ps 80:13
    69%

    13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

  • Job 24:14
    69%

    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 12:22
    69%

    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Isa 5:30
    69%

    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Ps 50:10
    69%

    10For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

  • Joel 1:20
    69%

    20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.