Psalm 74:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.

American Standard Version (1901)

The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Common English Bible

The day belongs to you! The night too! You established both the moon and the sun.

Psalm 74:16 Cross References

Psalm 104:19

You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

Psalm 104:20

You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

Jeremiah 33:25

Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.