Genesis 8:22

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Genesis 8:20–22 · Berean Standard Bible

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

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

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Isaiah 54:8

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.

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.

Psalms 74:16

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalms 74:17

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

Song of Solomon 2:11

For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

Song of Solomon 2:12

The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.

Isaiah 54:9

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

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.’

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.

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:

Jeremiah 33:20

“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,

Jeremiah 33:21

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

Jeremiah 33:23

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 33:25

This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

Jeremiah 33:26

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”