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Psalm 65:8
They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
6By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.
7You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
10You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
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Faraway places, dawn, and evening widen the song's horizon, while the turn from fear to joy keeps God's wonders from becoming a tame or familiar thing.
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Psalm 148:3Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!Both poems link the heavens with praise: dawn and evening come with joy, while sun, moon, and stars are told to praise God.
Psalm 136:8the sun to rule by day, for his loving kindness endures forever;Both connect daylight with God, one through dawn's songs of joy and the other through the sun and his enduring loving kindness.
Psalm 104:20–23You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.Both describe God governing the change of light: he calls dawn and evening, and he makes darkness become night.
Deuteronomy 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship …The psalm praises God for dawn and evening; Deuteronomy warns against giving worship to the sun, moon, and stars.
Psalm 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.Both put the day's changing light under God's authority: he calls dawn and evening, and day and night belong to him.
Joshua 2:9–11She said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt …Both describe fear among inhabitants of other places, connected with God's wonders in the psalm and his gift of land in Joshua.
Revelation 11:13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and …Both describe fear before divine power; Revelation recounts a deadly earthquake whose survivors are terrified and give glory to God.
Habakkuk 3:3–19God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.Both portray God's greatness on a vast scale, reaching faraway places in the psalm and filling heaven and earth in Habakkuk.
Exodus 15:14–16The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.Both describe fear among peoples, with the psalm naming God's wonders and Exodus naming the trembling inhabitants of Philistia.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”Both attend to the cycle of light and darkness: the psalm celebrates dawn and evening, while Genesis promises day and night will continue.
Acts 5:38–39Now I tell you, withdraw from these men and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.The connection is limited: the psalm describes God's wonders, while Acts speaks of the possible overthrow of work that comes from people.
Job 38:12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,Both speak of dawn answering to authority: the psalm credits God, while Job is asked whether he has ever commanded morning.
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God rules the day's beginning and end, and his wonders reach faraway places. The song has room for both fear before him and joy.
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