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Summer in the Bible
by White_Rabbit

SUMMER (prose and poetry -- not an exhaustive list):

(Genesis 8:22 ESV) While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

(Psalms 32:4 ESV) For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

(Psalms 74:17 ESV) You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.

(Proverbs 6:8 ESV) she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

(Proverbs 10:5 ESV) He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

(Proverbs 26:1 ESV) Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

(Proverbs 30:25 ESV) the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

(Isaiah 16:9 ESV) Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.

(Isaiah 18:6 ESV) They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

(Isaiah 28:4 ESV) and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.

(Jeremiah 8:20 ESV) "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."

(Jeremiah 48:32 ESV) More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen.

(Daniel 2:35 ESV) Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

(Amos 3:15 ESV) I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the LORD.

(Amos 8:1 ESV) This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit [summer = qayits].
(Amos 8:2 ESV) And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end [end = qets] has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.

(Micah 7:1 ESV) Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.

(Zechariah 14:8 ESV) On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.

(Matthew 24:32 ESV) "From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.
(Matthew 24:33 ESV) So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.
(Matthew 24:34 ESV) Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
(Matthew 24:35 ESV) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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