As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Parallel translations
- WEB While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- KJV While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- NKJV “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
- NASB “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
- NLT As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
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Quick answer
God promises that as long as the earth remains, the cycles of seasons, day and night will not cease. He pledges stable, dependable order to creation.
Overview
This gracious promise assures the ongoing rhythms of nature on which all life depends. It expresses God's faithfulness in upholding the created order despite human sin. The dependable seasons stand as a daily testimony to the patient mercy of God, who sustains the world and provides for all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jas 5:7Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- Ps 74:16–17The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Jer 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Jer 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
- Song 2:11–12For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- Jer 33:20–26“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Exod 34:21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
- Isa 54:8–9In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- Gen 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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