Mazmur 104:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apabila Engkau mendatangkan gelap, maka haripun malamlah; ketika itulah bergerak segala binatang hutan.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apabila Engkau mendatangkan gelap, maka haripun malamlah; ketika itulah bergerak segala binatang hutan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu turunlah kelam dan haripun malamlah, maka pada masa itu keluarlah segala margasatwa yang di hutan.

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

makest: Psalms 74:16, Psalms 139:10-12, Genesis 1:4, Genesis 1:5, Genesis 8:22, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 1:13

of the forest do creep forth: Heb. thereof do trample on the forest

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - Let there Genesis 1:26 - have dominion Genesis 9:2 - General Job 38:19 - darkness Psalms 65:8 - outgoings Jeremiah 5:6 - and a wolf Amos 5:8 - maketh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night,.... The darkness was before the light, and the night before the day, Genesis 1:2 and now the darkness and night are made by the setting of the sun before mentioned; see Isaiah 45:7.

Wherein all the beasts of the field do creep forth; out of their dens, and range about for their prey, as the evening wolves and others: and these are not the only creatures that choose the night and darkness; all wicked men do the same; whose deeds are evil, and do not care to come to the light, lest they should be reproved; particularly drunkards, adulterers, thieves, and murderers, John 3:20. So the Scribes and Pharisees, when they consulted to take away the life of Christ, and agreed with Judas to betray him, did it in the night: so false teachers, who are wolves in sheep's clothing, when it is a night of darkness with the church, take the advantage of it, to creep about and spread their pernicious doctrines; see 2 Timothy 3:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night - Thou hast made arrangements for the return of night - for the alternations of day and night. The Hebrew word rendered “makest,” means “to place;” and the idea is, that God constitutes the darkness, or so disposes things that it occurs.

Wherein all the beasts of the forest - The margin is, “the beasts thereof do trample on the forest.” The reference is to the beasts which seek their prey at night.

Do creep forth - The Hebrew word used here means properly “to creep,” as the smaller animals do, which have feet, as mice, lizards, crabs, or as those do which glide or drag themselves upon the ground, having no feet, as worms and serpents. Genesis 1:21, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 1:30; Genesis 9:2. The allusion here is to the quiet and noiseless manner in which the animals come forth at night in search of their prey, or seem to crawl out of their hiding-places - the places where they conceal themselves in the day-time. The idea is, that the arrangements which God has made in regard to day and night are wisely adapted to the animals which he has placed on the earth. The earth is full of animated beings, accomplishing by day and night the purposes of their existence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:20. Thou makest darkness — It is not the design of God that there should be either constant darkness or constant light. That man may labour, he gives him, by means of the sun, the light of the day; and that he may rest from his labour, and get his strength recruited, he gives him night, and comparative darkness. And as it would not be convenient for man and the wild beasts of the forest to collect their food at the same time, he has given the night to them as the proper time to procure their prey, and the day to rest in. When MAN labours, THEY rest; when MAN rests, THEY labour.