17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
17 You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
17 You laid out the four corners of earth, shaped the seasons of summer and winter.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.
17 You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 74:17
Commentary on Psalm 74:12-17
(Read Psalm 74:12-17)
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.