Psalm 104:20 {103:20}
Good News Translation
You made the night, and in the darkness all the wild animals come out.

New Revised Standard Version
You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.

Contemporary English Version
and you made the darkness, so the animals in the forest could come out at night.

New American Bible
You bring darkness and night falls, then all the animals of the forest wander about.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

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Psalm 74:16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Psalm 139:10-12 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me. . . .

Genesis 1:4,5 And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. . . .

Genesis 8:22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Amos 1:13 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.

of the forest do creep forth.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
19He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. 20Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:21The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:10
For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

Psalm 74:16
Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Isaiah 56:9
All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as a dew from the Lord, and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not for man, nor tarrieth for the children of men.

Psalm 104:19
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