King James Version
Psalms 74:16 in the King James Version says “The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 74 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.”
Psalms 74:16 · KJV
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. mighty: Heb. rivers of strength
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. made: Heb. made them
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“is thine the night”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
“also is thine thou hast prepared”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
“the light”
H3974properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e., (abstractly) light (as an element); figuratively, brightness, i.e.,cheerfulness; specifically, a chandeli
“and the sun”
H8121the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e., (architectural) a notched battlement
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