Bible Strands
Psalms 74:17
You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God during a national crisis, immediately after cataloging His creation of day, night, moon, and sun, and just before pleading for remembrance against enemy mockery.
The words — הִצַּבְתָּ (Hi.tzav.ta) means "you established," and קַיִץ (Ka.yitz) translates as "summer."
The thread — The motif of God setting boundaries appears in Deuteronomy 32:8 regarding nations, is echoed in Acts 17:26 concerning appointed times and borders, and parallels Genesis 8:22’s promise of enduring seasonal cycles.
Why it lands — The text asserts God’s direct authorship of geography and climate before the psalmist shifts to complaint. It requires the reader to acknowledge divine sovereignty over creation as the necessary foundation for the subsequent plea.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 32:8 When 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 17:26 From 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.
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Acts 14:17 Yet 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.”
- Psalms 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.