Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 853 [e] אֶת־ ’eṯ- - DirObjM 3394 [e] הַיָּרֵ֣חַ hay-yā-rê-aḥ The moon Art | N-ms 1a) of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God's omniscience (fig.)">3556 [e] וְ֭כוֹכָבִים wə-ḵō-w-ḵā-ḇîm and stars Conj-w | N-mp 1a) rule, dominion, realm, domain 1b) rule 1c) rule, dominion (of God)">4475 [e] לְמֶמְשְׁל֣וֹת lə-mem-šə-lō-wṯ to rule Prep-l | N-fpc 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)">3915 [e] בַּלָּ֑יְלָה bal-lā-yə-lāh; by night Prep-b, Art | N-ms 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore">3588 [e] כִּ֖י kî for Conj 1a) ancient time, long time (of past) 1b) (of future) 1b1) for ever, always 1b2) continuous existence, perpetual 1b3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity">5769 [e] לְעוֹלָ֣ם lə-‘ō-w-lām ever Prep-l | N-ms 2) a reproach, shame">2617 [e] חַסְדּֽוֹ׃ ḥas-dōw. His mercy [endures] N-msc | 3ms

New American Standard Bible
The moon and stars to rule by night, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

King James Bible
The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the moon and stars to rule by night. His love is eternal.

The moon and stars. The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being

Psalm 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon …

Psalm 89:36,37 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me…

Job 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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