Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalms 74:17 in other translations
| BSB | You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter. |
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| WEB | You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. |
| ASV | Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. |
| YLT | Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them. |
| DARBY | Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them. |
| BBE | By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter. |
| Webster | Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. |
What does Psalms 74:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 74:16-17
16-17. The fixed orders of nature and bounds of earth are of God.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 74:12-17
The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen…
Psalms 74:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 74:17
- Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
- Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
- Psalms 24:1-2
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 74:16
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 74:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tú estableciste todos los términos de la tierra: el verano y el invierno tú los formaste. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu as posé toutes les bornes de la terre; l’été et l’hiver, c’est toi qui les as formés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du hast festgestellt alle Grenzen der Erde; Sommer und Winter, du hast sie gebildet. |