Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.
Parallel translations
- WEB Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
- KJV Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
- BSB Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
- NKJV Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.
- NASB Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.
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Quick answer
Day and night ceaselessly pour out speech and knowledge about God. Creation's testimony is constant and unbroken.
Overview
The cycle of day and night offers a continuous, accumulating revelation of the Creator's glory. Like an overflowing spring, the created order keeps 'pouring out' its witness without pause. This relentless testimony underscores that knowledge of God's existence and power is freely available to all people everywhere.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
- Ps 134:1–3A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
- Ps 24:7–10Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
- Gen 1:17–18God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
- Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Ps 136:8–9The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Ps 78:3–6Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Exod 15:20–21Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
- Ps 148:12both young men and maidens; old men and children:
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