Psalms 148:5-6

148:5 Let them praise the name of the Lord,

for he gave the command and they came into existence.

148:6 He established them so they would endure; ¹ 

he issued a decree that will not be revoked. ² 

Genesis 8:22

8:22 “While the earth continues to exist, ³ 

planting time ⁴  and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

and day and night will not cease.”

Isaiah 48:13

48:13 Yes, my hand founded the earth;

my right hand spread out the sky.

I summon them;

they stand together.

Jeremiah 33:25

33:25 But I, the Lord, make the following promise: ⁵  I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.

¹ tn Or “forever and ever.”

² tn Heb “and it will not pass away.”

³ tn Heb “yet all the days of the earth.” The idea is “[while there are] yet all the days of the earth,” meaning, “as long as the earth exists.”

⁴ tn Heb “seed,” which stands here by metonymy for the time when seed is planted.

⁵ tn Heb “Thus says the Lord.” See the translator’s note at the beginning of v. 20 for the style adopted here. Here the promise is in v. 26 following the contrary to fact condition in v. 25. The Hebrew text of vv. 25-26 reads: “Thus says the Lord, “If I have not established my covenant with day and night [and] the laws/statutes of heaven and earth, also I could reject the seed of Jacob and David my servant from taking from his seed as rulers over the seed of Abraham…” The syntax of the original is a little awkward because it involves the verbs “establish” and “reject” governing two objects, the first governing two similar objects “my covenant” and “the regulations” and the second governing two dissimilar objects “the seed of Jacob” and “my servant David from taking [so as not to take].” The translation has sought to remove these awkward syntactical constructions and also break down the long complex original sentence in such a way as to retain its original intent, i.e., the guarantee of the continuance of the seed of Jacob and of the rule of a line of David’s descendants over them based on the fixed order of God’s creation decrees.