Psalm 104:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night: Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night, in which creeps forth every wild beast of the forest.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You bring on the darkness and it is night, when every forest animal prowls.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ The king sent and released him; he was the ruler of the people, and he dismissed him.

Psalm 104:20 Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

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

Psalm 74:16

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

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

Psalm 50:10

For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”