Psalms 74:17

What does Psalms 74:17 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 74:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.

Context

v.16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

v.17This passage

v.18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 24:1

    The earth is Jehovah’s, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.

  • Deuteronomy 32:8

    When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

  • Acts 14:17

    And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

  • Acts 17:26

    and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, 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.

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