Psalmen 74:16

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

u is de dag, u ook de nacht; gij hebt hemellichten en zon op hun plaats gesteld;

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Dag en nacht zijn de uwe; Gij maakt, dat zon en gesternten hunnen vasten loop hebben.

Staten Vertaling
De dag is Uwe, ook is de nacht Uwe; Gij hebt het licht en de zon bereid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The day: Psalms 136:7-9, Genesis 1:3-5

prepared: Psalms 8:3, Psalms 19:1-6, Psalms 136:7-9, Genesis 1:14-18, Matthew 5:45

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Genesis 1:16 - to rule Genesis 8:22 - seedtime Deuteronomy 4:19 - which the Lord Deuteronomy 33:14 - the precious Joshua 10:12 - Sun Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Job 38:12 - commanded Psalms 19:2 - night unto Psalms 65:8 - outgoings Psalms 104:20 - makest Psalms 139:9 - dwell Jeremiah 31:35 - which giveth Jeremiah 33:25 - and if 2 Corinthians 4:6 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The day is thine, and the night also is thine,.... He made the one and the other, and divided the one from the other; and can make them longer or shorter, clear or cloudy, as he pleases: and the day of prosperity and night of adversity are at his disposal; all the times of his people and of his church are in his hands; sometimes it is a night of darkness, deadness, sleepiness, and security, as it now is; ere long there will be no more night, but bright day; the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven fold as the light of seven days; and this is to be expected from him whose is the day and the night also, Revelation 21:25. Jarchi interprets the day, of the redemption of Israel; and the night, of distresses and afflictions:

thou hast prepared the light and the sun; first the light, and then the sun; for the light was before the sun; or the luminary, even the sun. Aben Ezra interprets the "light" of the moon, and so the Targum; and Kimchi, both of the moon and of the stars; Jarchi takes the light figuratively to be meant of the light of the law; but it is much better to understand it of the light of the Gospel, which God has prepared, and will send forth more largely in the latter day, whereby the whole earth shall be lightened; and when Christ the "sun" of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings, and who gives both the light of grace and glory to his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The day is thine, the night also is thine - Thou hast universal dominion. All things are under thy control. Thou hast power, therefore, to grant what we desire of thee.

Thou hast prepared the light and the sun - He who has made the sun - that greatest and noblest object of creation to the view of man - must have almighty power, and must be able to give what we need.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 74:16. The day is thine, the night also is thine — Thou art the Author of light, and of the sun, which is the means of dispensing it.