Psalm 74:16
New International Version
The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.

New Living Translation
Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun.

English Standard Version
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Berean Standard Bible
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

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

New King James Version
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.

New American Standard Bible
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.

NASB 1995
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.

NASB 1977
Thine is the day, Thine also is the night; Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have established the light and the sun.

Amplified Bible
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.

Christian Standard Bible
The day is yours, also the night; you established the moon and the sun.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The day is Yours, also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

American Standard Version
The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The day is yours and yours is the night; you have prepared the light and the sun.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.

Contemporary English Version
You rule the day and the night, and you put the moon and the sun in place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The day and the night are yours. You set the moon and the sun in their places.

Good News Translation
You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;

International Standard Version
Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.

Literal Standard Version
The day [is] Yours, | The night [is] also Yours, | You have prepared a light-giver—the sun.

Majority Standard Bible
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

New American Bible
Yours the day and yours the night too; you set the moon and sun in place.

NET Bible
You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

New Revised Standard Version
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

New Heart English Bible
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Webster's Bible Translation
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

World English Bible
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Young's Literal Translation
Thine is the day, also Thine is the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. 17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:5
God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Psalm 19:2
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalm 104:19
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

Psalm 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalm 136:7
He made the great lights--His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalm 136:8
the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.


Treasury of Scripture

The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.

the day

Psalm 136:7-9
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: …

Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…

prepared

Psalm 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalm 19:1-6
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork…

Psalm 136:7-9
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: …

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Psalm 74
1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary
10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power
18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant.














(16-18) An appeal from the God of history to the God of nature. Not only did He work wonders, but even the universe is the work of His hand.

(16) The light and the sun.--Evidently from Genesis 1:14; Genesis 1:16, where the same word occurs for the heavenly luminary generally, and then for the sun as chief.

Verse 16. - The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun (see Genesis 1:5, 15, 16); rather, thou hast prepared him light and sun. "Luminary" (מָאור) is probably a class name for the heavenly lights generally. The sun is then particularized, as so much the most important of the luminaries. But the result is "an imperfect parallelism" (Cheyne).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The day is Yours,
י֭וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

and also
אַף־ (’ap̄-)
Conjunction
Strong's 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

the night;
לָ֑יְלָה (lā·yə·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

You
אַתָּ֥ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

established
הֲ֝כִינ֗וֹתָ (hă·ḵî·nō·w·ṯā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

the moon
מָא֥וֹר (mā·’ō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3974: A luminous body, luminary, light, brightness, cheerfulness, a chandelier

and the sun.
וָשָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ (wā·šā·meš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement


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