Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.

Thus says the LORD; If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the seashore? there has he appointed it.