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8The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
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Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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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