Springtime

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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.

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;

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 →

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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.’

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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,

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

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,

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 →

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.

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

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

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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

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

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

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

For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

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; — read the full passage →

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;

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.

“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near;

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: — 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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 →

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.