Psalm 74:16 {73:16}
Good News Translation
You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the day

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

Genesis 1:3-5 And God said: Be light made. And light was made. . . .

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

Psalm 19:1-6 Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. . . .

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: . . .

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers. 16Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.17Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:5
And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.

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 19:2
Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.

Psalm 104:19
He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Psalm 104:20
Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

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

Psalm 136:8
The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Jeremiah 33:25
Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

Psalm 74:15
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