Psalms 74:17

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

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WEBBE

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

BSB

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

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

Original Hebrew

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אַתָּה 'a·tah you H859 הִצַּבְתָּ hi·tzav·ta you established H5324 כָּל־ kol- all H3605 גְּבוּלוֹת ge·vu·lot [the] boundaries of H1367 אָרֶץ 'a·retz [the] earth H776 קַיִץ ka·yitz summer H7019 וָחֹרֶף va·cho·ref and winter H2779 אַתָּה 'a·tah you H859 יְצַרְתָּם ye·tzar·tam you formed them H3335

The early church

"Thou hast made all the ends of the earth" (ver. 17). ...Behold in what manner He hath made the ends of the earth, that hath wrought Salvation in the midst of the earth. "Thou hast made all the ends of the earth. Summer and spring Thou hast made them." Men fervent in the Spirit are the summer. Thou, I say, hast made men fervent in the Spirit: Thou hast made also the novices in the Faith, they are the "spring." "Summer and Spring Thou hast made them." They shall not glory as if they have not received: "Thou hast made them."
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 12–17

The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.