Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Mazmur 136:8

אֶת־הַ֭שֶּׁמֶשׁ לְמֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת בַּיּ֑וֹם “The sun which dominates the day.” (Ps. 136: 8) Refers to the generation of the righteous person,Methuselah. When he died, the flood came and the lights no longer served (the world). It was as if the sun descended when it still should have been bringing light. Therefore the day was called the time that the sun dominates. Because all the time that he was in the world, he did not see the darkness of suffering.

And to rule over the day and the night (velimshol bayom ouvalila): The root, mem-shin-lamed (to rule) is connected to the [letter,] bet [after it], as [is the case with] (Genesis 37:8), "will you surely rule over us (timshol banu)." And the intention is that the night and the day be under the rulership of the luminaries as I have explained; and not that they will rule over the lower beings, this one by day and this one by night as is the opinion of Ramban. And this matter still requires much study, and maybe [Ramban] is right; and so did the Psalmist say (Psalms 136:8-9), "for the government of the day... for the government of the night." And it appears that this is what the author of the cantillation marks intended in verse 16, as he wanted to attach "and the small luminary to rule the night" with "and the stars;" as the psalmist [there] said, "and the moon and the stars for the government of the night."