What Does the Bible Say About Summer?

1. #1Psalms 74:17

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

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

2. #2Genesis 8:22

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

   BSBAs long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

3. #3Luke 21:30

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

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

4. #4Matthew 24:32

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

   BSBNow learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.

5. #5Amos 8:1

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

   BSBThis is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

6. #6Psalms 32:4

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

   BSBFor day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

7. #7Proverbs 6:6-8

   Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

   BSBWalk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

8. #8Proverbs 10:5

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

   BSBHe who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

9. #9Proverbs 26:1

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

   BSBLike snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.

10. #10Luke 21:29-36

    And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. …

    BSBThen Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. …

11. #11Jeremiah 8:20

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

    BSB“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

12. #12Proverbs 30:25

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

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

13. #13Mark 13:28

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

    BSBNow learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.

14. #14Jeremiah 40:10

    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.

    BSBAs for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

15. #15James 1:17

    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.

    BSBEvery good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

16. #16Jeremiah 40:12

    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.

    BSBthey all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

17. #17Isaiah 28:4

    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.

    BSBThe fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

18. #18Micah 7:1

    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.

    BSBWoe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

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