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Psalm 104:22

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.
23Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
24LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
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Notice

Lions slipping back into their dens at sunrise draw attention to a world whose rhythms extend beyond human work, under the wisdom of its Maker.

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Where else Scripture says this

4 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 37:8Both passages describe animals taking shelter in their dens, with Psalm 104 naming sunrise as the time of retreat.
John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.The shared thread is withdrawal from light: lions retreat at sunrise, while John describes people avoiding the exposure of their evil works.
Nahum 3:17Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee …The sun's appearance brings departure in both passages: lions return to dens, and Nahum's guards are compared to locusts that flee.
Job 24:13–17“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.The connection reaches only to light: Job describes human rebellion against it, while Psalm 104 describes lions retreating at sunrise.
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Read Psalm 104:22 at a window after sunrise

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Encouragement

The lions' retreat has a place in God's wise creation. Their night of hunting ends as daylight comes and human work begins.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).