“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

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

It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.

yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.

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

I myself will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine, summer fruit and olive oil, and put them in your storage jars, and live in the towns you have taken over.”

they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered. And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the Lord.

Israel’s Misery

What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave.

On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.

“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.