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.

While the earth {H776} remaineth {H3117}, seedtime {H2233} and harvest {H7105}, and cold {H7120} and heat {H2527}, and summer {H7019} and winter {H2779}, and day {H3117} and night {H3915} shall not cease {H7673}.

So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • James 5:7 (19 votes)

    Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

  • Psalms 74:16 (18 votes)

    The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • Psalms 74:17 (18 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 5:24 (15 votes)

    Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

  • Song Of Solomon 2:11 (14 votes)

    For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;

  • Song Of Solomon 2:12 (14 votes)

    The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

  • Jeremiah 31:35 (13 votes)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: