¹⁶ The day is yours, and yours also the night;
    you established the sun and moon.^(A)

⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

²⁰ You bring darkness,^(A) it becomes night,^(B)
    and all the beasts of the forest^(C) prowl.

²² “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,^(A)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,^(B)
day and night
will never cease.”^(C)