Psalms 104:20

Darkness — Which succeeds the light by virtue of thy decree.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night - Thou hast made arrangements for the return of night - for the alternations of day and night. The Hebrew w...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CIV. The Glory of the Creator. Psalms 104:1-4 . Yahweh's power in the heavens. He is clothed in the light which God made first ( Genesis 1:3 ) be...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth . Thou makest darkness - It is not the design of God that...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. Thou makest darkness ... wherein all the beasts o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is a Ps. of Nature, celebrating God's glory as seen in His works both inanimate and animate. It is an expansion of the closing vv. of Psalms 10...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Creep forth. — The word “forth” is better omitted. The Hebrew verb is that especially used of crawling animals and reptiles, and here, no doubt, hi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 104:1-35 LIKE the preceding psalm, this one begins and ends with the psalmist's call to his soul to bless Jehovah. The inference has been d...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Habitation for Beast and Man Psalms 104:13-23 Where there is true love for God, there will be a glad and rejoicing heart that takes pleasure...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we have a great song of praise commencing and closing with the same note of personal praise. While in the former the dominant note is that of t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As in the natural; set in the spiritual world, there are seasons of light and darkness; and when Jesus, the Sun of righteousness, for a moment withdr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou makest darkness, and it is night ,.... The darkness was before the light, and the night before the day, Genesis 1:2 and now the darkness and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth]. Ver. 20. Thou makest darkness ] Which, though it be...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou makest darkness Which succeeds the light, by virtue of thy decree and established order; and it is night Which, though black and dismal, con...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Bounty. 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun know...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Darkness; which succeeds the light by virtue of thy decree and established order. Creep forth, to look out for prey, which in the day time they d...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Calvin, “differs from the last, in that it neither treats of God’s special mercies bestowed on His Church, nor lifts...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 104:20-21 I. Consider, with respect and admiration, the manful, cheerful view of pain and death, and indeed of the whole creation, which th...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 104:20-23 I. "Thou makest darkness." Darkness is a part of Divine order; at least, in the physical universe it is so: and I suppose in this...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I trust that we have already felt something of holy enjoyment while our hearts and voices have been praising the Lord our God. Perhaps this Psalm may...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm has no title in the Hebrew, but it is ascribed to David by the LXX, and by most of the Versions. It celebrates the works of God in the cre...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord my God, Thou art very great. A hymn of praise to God in Nature I. The universality of God’s workings in Nature. 1. In the domain of d...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION " THE psalmist, in a time of severe trouble, arising from the power of the heathen, seeks consolation in reflecting on the greatness...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Praise of God for His Work in the Kingdom of Nature. The psalmist, probably David, as in the preceding psalm, celebrates the glory of God in the w...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, the night following upon day by His providential rule; wherein all the beasts of the forest, the beasts of p...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 1:13 ; Genesis 1:4 ; Genesis 1:5 ; Genesis 8:22 ; Isaiah 45:7 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 74:16

²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beastse of the forest do creep forth.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 104:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:20