You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
- KJV Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- NKJV You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.
- NASB You have established all the boundaries of the earth; You have created summer and winter.
- NLT You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.
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Quick answer
God set every boundary of the earth and made summer and winter, ruling over space and season alike.
Overview
The psalmist completes his creation argument: God has fixed the limits of the earth and ordained the seasons. This comprehensive sovereignty over geography and time assures Israel that their God is no local deity but the Lord of all. Such confidence in the Creator anchors the appeal for deliverance that follows.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Deut 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Gen 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Ps 24:1–2A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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