¹⁷ By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

²² While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

²⁶ And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

² For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

¹⁷ But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.