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20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. …
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. …
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)We are here taught to praise and magnify God, I. For the constant revolutions and succession of day and night, and the dominion of sun and moon over them. The heathen were so affected with the light and influence of the sun and moon, and their serviceableness to the earth, that they worshipped them as deities; and therefore the scripture takes all occasions to show that the gods they worshipped ar…
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