Verse 16

The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 8 As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer: 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer:
  • Gen 1:14-18 : 14 And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres. 15 And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so. 16 God then made two great lightes: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule the night: he made also the starres. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth, 18 And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.
  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,
  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands. 2 Day vnto day vttereth the same, & night vnto night teacheth knowledge. 3 There is no speach nor language, where their voyce is not heard. 4 Their line is gone forth through all the earth, & their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne. 5 Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mightie man to runne his race. 6 His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.
  • Ps 104:19 : 19 He appoynted the moone for certaine seasons: the sunne knoweth his going downe.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to arise on the euill, and the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and vniust.
  • Gen 1:3-5 : 3 Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light. 4 And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes. 5 And God called the light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.