Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Holman Bible
You established the moon and the sun.
International Standard Version
Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun.
A Conservative Version
The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun.
American Standard Version
The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Amplified
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.
Darby Translation
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:
Julia Smith Translation
To thee the day, also to thee the night: thou didst prepare the light and the sun.
King James 2000
The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yours [is the] day, yours [is the] night also. You established light and [the] sun.
Modern King James verseion
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The day is thine. The night is thine. Thou hast prepared the lights and the sun.
NET Bible
You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
New Heart English Bible
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
The Emphasized Bible
Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thine is the day, also Thine is the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 74:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Israel
15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry. 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. 17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 136:7-9
To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Genesis 1:14-18
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Psalm 8:3
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Psalm 19:1-6
The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
Psalm 104:19
He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
Matthew 5:45
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.