KJV King James Version
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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Psalm 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
WEB World English Bible
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.
Surrounding context — Psalm 74
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Deuteronomy 32:8When 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 17:26And 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;Acts 14:17Nevertheless 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.Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Psalm 24:1-2A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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