Psalms 104:20

World English Bible (2000)

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 139:10-12 : 10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" 12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
  • Gen 1:4-5 : 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:21-27
    7 verses
    79%

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

    22 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

    23 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

    24 Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

    25 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

    26 There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

    27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Ps 104:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

    19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

  • Job 37:8
    75%

    8 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

  • Ps 148:10
    74%

    10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

  • Job 40:20
    73%

    20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

  • Job 17:12
    73%

    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 5:14
    72%

    14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ps 74:16
    72%

    16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

  • Ps 8:7
    72%

    7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    71%

    12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 10:22
    71%

    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Ps 18:28
    71%

    28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

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

  • Ps 18:11
    71%

    11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Prov 7:9
    71%

    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

  • Ps 65:8
    71%

    8 They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 22:11
    70%

    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Ps 104:2
    70%

    2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

  • Job 4:13
    70%

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

  • Ps 104:29
    70%

    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • Job 35:10
    70%

    10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

  • Gen 1:24
    70%

    24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

  • Gen 1:18
    69%

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

  • Ps 74:20
    69%

    20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

  • Ps 104:8
    69%

    8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    69%

    29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

  • Ps 17:12
    69%

    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Amos 5:20
    69%

    20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Ps 80:13
    69%

    13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

  • Job 24:14
    69%

    14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 12:22
    69%

    22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Isa 5:30
    69%

    30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Ps 50:10
    69%

    10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

  • Joel 1:20
    69%

    20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.