Psalm 104:19 {103:19}
Good News Translation
You created the moon to mark the months; the sun knows the time to set.

New Revised Standard Version
You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

Contemporary English Version
You created the moon to tell us the seasons. The sun knows when to set,

New American Bible
You made the moon to mark the seasons, the sun that knows the hour of its setting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Psalm 8:3 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Psalm 136:7-9 Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Genesis 1:14-18 And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: . . .

Deuteronomy 4:19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

Job 31:26-28 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: . . .

Job 38:12 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
18The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins. 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:…
Cross References
Genesis 1:14
And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Psalm 19:6
His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to the end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.

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

Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

Psalm 104:18
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