Lexicon :: Strong's H7019 - qayiṣ

“While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

Cold and heat,

Winter and summer,

And day and night

Shall not cease.”

When David was a little past the summit [of the Mount of Olives], behold, Ziba, the servant of [fn]Mephibosheth, met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a [fn]jug of wine.

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me;

My [fn]energy (vitality, strength) was drained away as with the burning heat of summer. Selah.

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];

You have made summer and winter.

She prepares her food in the summer

And brings in her provisions [of food for the winter] in the harvest.

He who gathers during summer and takes advantage of his opportunities is a son who acts wisely,

But he who sleeps during harvest and ignores the moment of opportunity is a son who acts shamefully.

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,

So honor is not fitting for a [shortsighted] [fn]fool.

The ants are not a strong people,

Yet they prepare their food in the summer;

Therefore I (Isaiah) will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vines of Sibmah.

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the war-cry [of the enemy] has fallen on your summer fruits and your harvest.

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley,

Will be like the early fig before the summer,

Which one sees,

And as soon as it is in his hand

He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

“The harvest is past, the summer has ended and the gathering of fruit is over,

But we are not saved,” [comes the voice of the people again].

“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for you

More than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].

Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,

Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.

The destroyer has fallen

On your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.

“And I shall tear down the winter house with the summer house;

And the houses of ivory shall also perish

And the great houses shall come to an end,”

Says the LORD.

Thus the Lord GOD showed me [a vision], and behold, there was a basket of [overripe] summer fruit.

Woe is me (judgment is coming)! For I am

Like one who gathers the summer fruits, like one who gleans the vintage grapes.

There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,

No first-ripe fig which my appetite craves.

And in that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea (Dead Sea) and half of them to the western sea (the Mediterranean); it will be in summer as well as in winter.