Spring

For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. — read the full passage →

Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring out; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring out before all the nations.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. — read the full passage →

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. — read the full passage →

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, — read the full passage →

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. — read the full passage →

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. — read the full passage →

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, — read the full passage →

Then your light shall break out as the morning, and your healing shall spring out speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; Yahweh’s glory shall be your rear guard.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn’t know how.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

“I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, — read the full passage →

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.