Summer

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: — read the full passage →

He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; — read the full passage →

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is to be praised.

So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. — read the full passage →

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. — read the full passage →

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. — read the full passage →

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. — read the full passage →

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: — read the full passage →

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. — read the full passage →

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.