Genesis 8:22

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Throughout all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Latin

Cunctis diebus terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.

Hebrew

English

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

God’s promise to sustain the rhythm of the seasons reaffirmed the created order (1:14; see also Jeremiah 33:20; Zechariah 14:7).

Theme notes and profiles

James 5:7
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
Psalm 74:16–17
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
Song of Solomon 2:11–12
For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
Jeremiah 33:20–26
“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
Isaiah 54:8–9
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.