Summer

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

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

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

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

When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a…

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage.

Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”

I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.

provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”