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Psalm 74:17

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

15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
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Notice

Summer and winter belong to God even in a psalm of devastation, where naming his rule over the earth comes before another plea for help.

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What changes in your reading when “You have made summer and winter” comes just before a plea for help?

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What signs of summer or winter near you could become part of your prayer today?

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What remains unresolved in verses 18–19 after the declaration of God’s power in verse 17?

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Deuteronomy 32:8When 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 …Both passages credit God with setting bounds: the earth’s boundaries in the psalm and the bounds of peoples in Deuteronomy.
Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,Both passages name God as the one who determines boundaries and times for life on earth.
Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and …The psalm credits God with making summer and winter; Acts credits him with rain and fruitful times that provide food.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”Both name summer and winter as part of God’s ordering of the earth; Genesis promises their continuation while the earth remains.
Job 38:18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.Both speak of the earth’s extent: the psalm names God as its boundary setter, while Job faces a question about his knowledge.
Psalm 24:1–2A Psalm by David. The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.Psalm 24 declares that the earth belongs to the LORD; Psalm 74 names its boundaries, summer and winter as his work.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 74:17–19 aloud beside a window this week

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Encouragement

Your prayer can name God’s power while distress remains unresolved. Here, the plea for protection continues after the confession that earth’s boundaries, summer and winter are God’s work.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).