Psalm 136:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night: For his mercy endureth for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

Common English Bible

⁹ The moon and the stars to rule the night— God’s faithful love lasts forever!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Blessed is he who will take hold of your little ones and dash them against the rock.

Psalm 136:9 Cross References

Psalm 8:3

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

Job 31:26

if I have looked at the sun when it shone or the moon moving in splendor,

Genesis 1:16

God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

Psalm 8:4

what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Psalm 74:16

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

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name: