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Psalms 104:20

Psalms 104:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 104, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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Psalms 104:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 74:16

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalms 139:10

even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalms 139:11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Genesis 1:4

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5

God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Amos 1:13

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

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