Over 240 Bible Verses About Sunsets

The Sun as a Symbol

• Psalm 84:11 – “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing he withholds from those whose walk is blameless.”

• Malachi 4:2 – “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays.”

• Ecclesiastes 11:7 – “Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.”

• Psalm 19:4b-6 – “In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun… It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other.”

• Isaiah 60:20 – “Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more.”

• Psalm 72:17 – “May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun.”

• Psalm 74:16 – “The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.”

• Ecclesiastes 1:5 – “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.”

• Psalm 136:8 – “The sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.”

• Jeremiah 31:35 – “He who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night.”

• Psalm 50:1 – “The Mighty One… summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.”

• Psalm 65:8 – “Where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.”

• Psalm 72:5 – “May they fear you as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon.”

• Psalm 89:37 – “It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

• Genesis 1:5 – “God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”

Evening Prayers and Reflections

• Psalm 141:2 – “May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.”

• Psalm 4:8 – “In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.”

• Psalm 55:17 – “Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.”

• Psalm 104:23 – “Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.”

• Psalm 92:1-2 – “It is good to praise the Lord… proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night.”

• Mark 1:32 – “That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick.”

• Matthew 14:23 – “When evening came, he was there alone, praying.”

• Exodus 12:6 – “Slaughter them at twilight.”

• Leviticus 22:6-7 – “When the sun goes down, he will be clean… and may eat of the sacred offerings.”

• Deuteronomy 16:6 – “Sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down.”

• Micah 7:8 – “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

• Isaiah 9:2 – “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.”

• Psalm 92:2 – “To declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night.”

• Psalm 134:1 – “Praise the Lord, all you servants who minister by night.”

• Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.”

• Job 17:12 – “They change the night into day… ‘The light is near to the darkness.’”

• Psalm 16:7 – “Even at night my heart instructs me.”

• Psalm 77:6 – “I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked.”

• Psalm 17:3 – “Though you examine me at night, you will find no evil.”

• Psalm 63:6-7 – “On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.”

The Transition from Day to Night

• Exodus 17:12 – “Aaron and Hur held his hands up… till sunset.”

• Nehemiah 13:19 – “When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Mark 11:19 – “When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.”

• Luke 4:40 – “At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had sickness.”

• Deuteronomy 23:11 – “At sunset he may return to the camp.”

• Joshua 8:29 – “At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take his body down.”

• Judges 14:18 – “Before sunset… men of the town said to him…”

• Matthew 16:2-3 – “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’”

• Exodus 14:20 – “Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to one side and light to the other.”

• Nehemiah 4:9 – “We prayed and posted a guard day and night.”

• Mark 6:46-47 – “When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the lake.”

• Luke 6:12 – “Jesus spent the night praying to God.”

• Jeremiah 29:12 – “Then you will call on me and pray to me, and I will listen.”

• Psalm 30:5 – “Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”

• Genesis 28:17 – “How awesome is this place! This is the gate of heaven.”

• Psalm 104:31 – “May the glory of the Lord endure forever.”

• Psalm 107:31 – “Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love.”

• Job 26:7 – “He suspends the earth over nothing.”

• Psalm 90:4 – “A thousand years in your sight are like a day.”

• Psalm 139:11-12 – “Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day.”

The Promise of Renewal with Each Sunset (25 verses)

• 2 Corinthians 4:16 – “Though outwardly wasting away, inwardly we are renewed day by day.”

• Lamentations 3:22-23 – “His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.”

• Ephesians 4:23-24 – “To be made new in the attitude of your minds.”

• Colossians 3:10 – “Put on the new self, being renewed in knowledge.”

• Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”

• Isaiah 40:31 – “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.”

• Titus 3:5 – “He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal.”

• Romans 12:2 – “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

• Psalm 85:6 – “Will you not revive us again?”

• Micah 7:18-19 – “Who pardons sin and forgives the transgression.”

• Psalm 17:3 – “You will find that I have planned no evil.”

• Psalm 63:6-7 – “Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.”

• Psalm 4:4 – “Tremble and do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts.”

• Matthew 14:23 – “When evening came, Jesus was there alone.”

• Mark 1:32 – “After sunset, the people brought the sick to Jesus.”

• Luke 4:40 – “At sunset, Jesus healed the sick.”

• Psalm 92:2 – “Declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night.”

• Psalm 134:1 – “Praise the Lord, all you servants who minister by night.”

• Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night.”

• Psalm 77:6 – “My heart meditated and my spirit asked.”

• Psalm 16:7 – “Even at night, my heart instructs me.”

• Psalm 30:5 – “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”

• Job 14:14 – “If a person dies, will they live again?”

• Romans 13:12 – “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here.”

• Revelation 21:23 – “The city does not need the sun or moon.”

God's Eternal Light and Guidance (30 verses)

• John 8:12 – “I am the light of the world.”

• Psalm 27:1 – “The Lord is my light and my salvation.”

• Isaiah 60:19-20 – “Your sun will never set again.”

• Revelation 22:5 – “There will be no night there.”

• Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet.”

• 2 Samuel 22:29 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Isaiah 42:16 – “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known.”

• Psalm 43:3 – “Send out your light and your truth.”

• John 12:46 – “I have come into the world as a light.”

• Psalm 36:9 – “With you is the fountain of life.”

• Proverbs 4:18 – “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun.”

• Isaiah 9:2 – “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Micah 7:8 – “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

• Psalm 56:13 – “For you have delivered me from death.”

• Isaiah 58:8 – “Your light will break forth like the dawn.”

• Matthew 5:16 – “Let your light shine before others.”

• Luke 2:32 – “A light for revelation to the Gentiles.”

• Ephesians 5:8 – “You were once darkness, but now you are light.”

• Psalm 119:130 – “The unfolding of your words gives light.”

• John 1:5 – “The light shines in the darkness.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You keep my lamp burning.”

• Isaiah 60:1 – “Arise, shine, for your light has come.”

• Revelation 21:23 – “The city does not need the sun or moon.”

• Psalm 112:4 – “Even in darkness light dawns for the upright.”

• Psalm 37:6 – “He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Isaiah 42:16 – “I will lead the blind.”

• Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:6 – “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness.’”

More Verses on Light and Darkness

• Isaiah 60:20 – “Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light.”

• Psalm 112:4 – “Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.”

• Proverbs 13:9 – “The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.”

• John 3:19 – “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.”

• 1 John 1:5 – “God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”

• Psalm 36:9 – “For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.”

• Matthew 4:16 – “The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

• John 12:35 – “Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you.”

• Ephesians 5:14 – “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.”

• 2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?”

• Isaiah 9:2 – “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.”

• Psalm 27:1 – “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?”

• Luke 1:79 – “To give light to those living in darkness and in the shadow of death.”

• Romans 13:12 – “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”

• Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

• John 1:9 – “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.”

• Matthew 5:16 – “Let your light shine before others.”

• Revelation 21:23 – “The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light.”

• Isaiah 58:8 – “Your light will break forth like the dawn.”

• Micah 7:8 – “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

• Psalm 119:130 – “The unfolding of your words gives light.”

• John 8:12 – “I am the light of the world.”

• Psalm 43:3 – “Send out your light and your truth.”

• Isaiah 42:16 – “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known.”

• Psalm 56:13 – “For you have delivered me from death.”

Verses 101–140: Light as Guidance, Protection, and Salvation

• 2 Samuel 22:29 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Psalm 37:6 – “He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn.”

• Ephesians 5:8 – “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.”

• John 12:46 – “I have come into the world as a light.”

• Psalm 36:9 – “With you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.”

• Isaiah 60:1 – “Arise, shine, for your light has come.”

• Revelation 22:5 – “There will be no night there.”

• Psalm 112:4 – “Even in darkness light dawns for the upright.”

• Isaiah 42:16 – “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known.”

• Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:6 – “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts.”

• John 1:5 – “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

• Matthew 5:14 – “You are the light of the world.”

• Psalm 27:1 – “The Lord is my light and my salvation.”

• Isaiah 9:2 – “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.”

• John 3:19-21 – “People loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.”

• Psalm 18:28 – “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.”

• Psalm 43:3 – “Send out your light and your truth.”

• Luke 2:32 – “A light for revelation to the Gentiles.”

• Romans 13:12 – “Let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”

• Isaiah 58:8 – “Your light will break forth like the dawn.”

• Psalm 56:13 – “For you have delivered me from death.”

• Micah 7:8 – “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

• John 8:12 – “I am the light of the world.”

• Psalm 119:130 – “The unfolding of your words gives light.”

• Revelation 21:23 – “The city does not need the sun or the moon.”

Verses About Sunsets, Evening, and Night (God’s Creation and Symbolism)

•  “And God made the two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night-and the stars.” — Genesis 1:16
•  “The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.” — Ecclesiastes 1:5
• “He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.” — Psalm 104:19
•  “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place.” - Psalm 8:3
• “From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised.” - Psalm 113:3
•  “You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about.” — Psalm 104:20
• “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here.” — Romans 13:12
• “Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice.” — Psalm 55:17
•  “He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.” — Psalm 104:19
•  “For the sun rises with healing in its rays; and you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.” — Malachi 4:2
• “The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent.” — Psalm 104:2
• “The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.” — Psalm 74:16
•  “The stars shine in the sky, and the sun rises and sets according to His command.” — Job 38:7-8 (paraphrased)
• “The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you.” — Isaiah 60:19
•  “The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?” — Psalm 27:1

Conclusion

The imagery of sunsets and evenings in the Bible beautifully reflects God’s creative power, His control over the natural world, and the rhythms of life He established. From the grandeur of the sun setting on the horizon to the gentle transition into night, these verses remind us of God’s faithfulness, the promise of renewal, and the peace found in His presence as the day ends. Whether as a symbol of rest, hope, or divine light, sunsets invite us to pause, reflect, and praise the Creator who governs the heavens and the earth with unwavering love and sovereignty.