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7To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:7

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

  • And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

  • The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. …

  • And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

The duty we are here again and again called to is to give thanks , to offer the sacrifice of praise continually , not the fruits of our ground or cattle, but the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name , Heb. 13:15. We are never so earnestly called upon to pray and repent as to give thanks ; for it is the will of God that we should abound most in the most pleasant exercises of religion, in th…

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