Psalms 104:22

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:8 : 8 The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.
  • Nah 3:17 : 17 Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

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  • Ps 104:18-21
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    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.

    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

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

  • Job 38:39-40
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    78%

    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?

  • Job 37:8
    78%

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

  • Ps 104:23
    78%

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

  • Eccl 1:5
    72%

    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

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

  • Job 24:5
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    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • Ps 104:7-8
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    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

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

  • Job 24:16-17
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    69%

    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.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Job 39:3-4
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    3They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

    4Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • Job 30:6-7
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    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

    7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

  • Job 40:20-21
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    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

    21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

  • Dan 6:19
    68%

    19God Rescues Daniel from the Lions In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

  • Ps 104:27
    68%

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

  • 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 6:17
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    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • Job 17:12
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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Job 7:4
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    4If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

  • Ps 19:4
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    4Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

  • Num 23:24
    67%

    24Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”

  • Ps 104:11-12
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    11They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

    12The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Ps 59:14-15
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    14They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Ezek 19:6
    66%

    6He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

  • Job 24:14
    66%

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

  • Ps 74:16
    66%

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

  • Ps 10:9
    66%

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Prov 4:16
    66%

    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Job 21:26
    66%

    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Hab 1:15
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    15The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.