Psalm 104:20
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20 You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.(A)
Isaiah 45:7
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7 I form light and create darkness,
I make weal and create woe;
I the Lord do all these things.(A)
Psalm 74:16
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Footnotes
- 74.16 Or moon; Heb light
Amos 1:13
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13 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead
in order to enlarge their territory.(A)
Footnotes
- 1.13 Heb cause it to return
Psalm 139:10-12
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10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.(A)
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and night wraps itself around me,”[a](B)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.(C)
Footnotes
- 139.11 Q ms: MT and the light around me become night
Psalm 50:10
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10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.(A)
Genesis 8:22
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22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night
shall not cease.”(A)
Genesis 1:4-5
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4 And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.(A) 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.(B)
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