Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone.
Parallel translations
- WEB For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
- KJV For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
- BSB For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- NKJV For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
- NASB ‘For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
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Quick answer
He announces that winter and rain are past. It signals that a new season of joy has come.
Overview
The end of winter and the cessation of rains mark the turn to spring, a time for love to flourish. The renewal of the seasons mirrors the renewal of joy and life. So Scripture speaks of seasons of refreshing from the Lord, when the cold of barrenness gives way to new life (Acts 3:19; 2 Cor. 5:17).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 60:1–2“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
- Eccl 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
- Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- Isa 54:6–8For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
- Eccl 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Rev 11:14–15The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
- Isa 40:2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
- Isa 12:1–2In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
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