Mazmur 104:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Engkau yang telah membuat bulan menjadi penentu waktu, matahari yang tahu akan saat terbenamnya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Engkau yang telah membuat bulan menjadi penentu waktu, matahari yang tahu akan saat terbenamnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka telah dijadikan-Nya bulan akan ketentuan masa, dan mataharipun mengetahui akan tempat masuknya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ He hath made the moone for certayne seasons: and the sunne knoweth his goyng downe. ²⁰ Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode. ²¹ The Lions do roare after a pray: and in seeking their meate of God. ²² When the sunne ariseth, they recoyle backe: and lay them downe to rest in their dennes. ²³ Man goeth foorth to his worke: and to do his seruice vntyll the euening. ²⁴ O God howe manyfolde are thy workes? thou hast made them al in wisdome, the earth is ful of thy ryches. ²⁵ So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse: wherein are thinges creeping innumerable, both small and great beastes. ²⁶ There go the shippes, and there is that Leuiathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin. ²⁷ These wayte all vpon thee: that thou mayest geue them meate in due season. ²⁸ When thou geuest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thyne hand, they are filled with that which is good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 8:3, Psalms 136:7-9, Genesis 1:14-18, Deuteronomy 4:19, Job 31:26-28, Job 38:12, Jeremiah 31:35

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:14 - moon Psalms 89:37 - ever Ecclesiastes 1:5 - sun Jeremiah 33:20 - General Jeremiah 33:25 - and if

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He appointeth the moon for seasons,.... Or, "he made" e; for the moon is the work of his hands, Psalms 8:3 as is likewise the sun. From the rain the psalmist passes to the luminaries; for this reason, as Aben Ezra thinks, because they are the cause of rain: the moon is taken notice of in the first place, because, as Kimchi observes, the night was before the day; and in the night of the fourth day were the sun, moon, and stars; but the sun rose in the morning. The moon was made for seasons as well as the sun, Genesis 1:16 or that times might be numbered by it, as the Targum, both months and years; one of its courses and revolutions making a month, and twelve of these a year; which lunar years were in use among some nations: as also it is supposed to have an influence on the ebbing and flowing of the tides; and served to regulate the festivals of the Jews, their set appointed times, as the word signifies, and is used of them, and which were governed by it. And this Jarchi takes to be the sense of the passage; though Aben Ezra more truly remarks, that it purely belongs to the work of creation, and the original design and use of this luminary. It was an emblem of the ceremonial law; which consisted, among other things, in the observation of new moons; which gave some light in the time of Jewish darkness, though but a dim one, in comparison of the Gospel; had its imperfections, was changeable, waxed old, and vanished away; and which the church is said to have under her feet, being abolished,

Revelation 12:1. Though some think the world is meant, which is changeable and fading. It was also an emblem of the church, Song of Solomon 6:10 which receives her light from Christ, the sun of righteousness; has its different phases and appearances; sometimes being in prosperity, and sometimes in adversity; has its spots and imperfections, and yet beautiful, through the grace of God and righteousness of Christ.

The sun knoweth his going down; not the going down of the moon, which is the sense of some, according to Kimchi; but his own going down; and so he knows his rising, to which this is opposed, Psalms 50:1 and every revolution, diurnal or annual, he makes; and which he constantly and punctually observes, as if he was a creature endued with reason and understanding; see Psalms 19:5. He knows the time of his setting, as the Targum, Syriac, and Arabic versions; and also the place where he is to set, at the different seasons of the year, and indeed every day. This luminary is an emblem of Christ, the sun of righteousness, Psalms 84:11 the fountain of all light; the light of nature, grace, and glory; and of all spiritual life and heat, as well as fruitfulness. He arose at his incarnation, and set at his death, the time of both which he full well knew; and he has his risings and settings, with respect to the manifestation of himself to his people, or hiding himself from them, which depend on his pleasure.

e עשה "fecit", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He appointed the moon for seasons - Genesis 1:14-18. That is, The moon, as well as the sun, is appointed to divide time; to determine its progress; to indicate the return of festival occasions, or appointed times to be observed in any manner. It is, in fact, the foundation of the division of the year into “months,” and consequently the indication of all that is to be observed in the “months” of the year. But for this, there would be no natural divisions of time except those of day and night, and of the year. How great an advantage it is for the purpose of life, to have time broken up into brief intervals or periods which can be marked and remembered, both in our private life and in history, it is not necessary to say. God has been pleased to add to the natural divisions of time into days, and years, and months, an “artificial” division - the “fourth” part of the moon’s course - “a week,” indicated by the Sabbath, thus greatly facilitating the plans of life in regard to stated times or “seasons,” and especially in regard to religious observances. The idea in the passage before us is, that the whole arrangement is one of benevolence, promoting the comfort of man, and bringing the ideas of succession, variety, and beauty into the system.

The sun knoweth his going down - As if conscious of what he is doing, he knows the exact time of setting, and never varies, but always obeys the divine command; never sets “before” his time - unexpectedly shortening the day, and leaving man in sudden darkness in the midst of his toil; and never lingers above the horizon “after” the moment has come for his setting, but withdraws at the exact time, enabling man to close his toil, and seek repose, and giving an opportunity for another class of creatures to come forth on the animated scene. Their good is regarded as well as that of man; and the operations of nature are so arranged as to promote the welfare of all.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:19. He appointed the moon for seasons — The heathens thought that the sun and moon were gods, and worshipped them as such. The psalmist shows,

1. That they are creatures dependent on God for their being and continuance; and,

2. That they were made for the use of man. See what has been said on these luminaries in the notes on Genesis 1:14-16.