English Standard Version
Psalms 74:16
16Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
Psalms 74:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- New International Version (NIV)The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun.
Context of Psalms 74:16
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. 15You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. 17You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. 18Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
Read all of Psalms 74Psalms 74:16 word by word
לְךָ֣ י֭וֹם אַף־לְךָ֥ לָ֑יְלָה אַתָּ֥ה הֲ֝כִינ֗וֹתָ מָא֥וֹר וָשָֽׁמֶשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 74:16
- Psalms 136:7to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;
- Genesis 1:3And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- Psalms 8:3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
- Psalms 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
- Genesis 1:14And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,
- Matthew 5:45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Commentaries on Psalms 74:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The day is thine, the night also is thine - Thou art the Author of light, and of the sun, which is the means of dispensing it.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16The day is thine, the night also is thine - Thou hast universal dominion. All things are under thy control. Thou hast power, therefore, to grant what we desire of thee. Thou hast prepared the light and the sun - He who has made the sun - that greatest and noblest object of creation to the view of man - must have almighty power, and must be able to give what we need.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-17Verses 12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-23The psalmist laments the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. This happened in 586 BC. The psalmist uses vivid imagery, asks questions, recalls fresh memories, and directly asks the Lord to act (Psalm 74:19–23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. The fixed orders of nature and bounds of earth are of God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 74
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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