Psalms 74:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Psalms 74:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 136:7-9
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: …
Matthew 5:45
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.
Psalms 104:19
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Genesis 1:14-18
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: …
Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. …

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 12-17)

The lamenting church fastens upon something here which she calls to mind, and therefore hath she hope (as Lam. 3:21), with which she encourages herself and silences her own complaints. Two things quiet the minds of those that are here sorrowing for the solemn assembly:— I. That God is the God of Israel, a God in covenant with his people (Ps. 74:12): God is my King of old. This comes in both as a p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-17. The fixed orders of nature and bounds of earth are of God.