Look! The winter has passed, the winter rains are over and gone.

“They cry, ¹  ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, ²  and still we have not been delivered.’

The first woe has passed, but ¹  two woes are still coming after these things!

The second woe has come and gone; ¹  the third is coming quickly.

My days have passed, my plans ¹  are shattered, even ²  the desires ³  of my heart.

In ¹  past ²  generations he allowed all the nations ³  to go their own ways,

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

Yes, ¹  in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime. ² 

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader in earlier times, and the Lord was with him.

When the days of mourning ¹  had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, ²  “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh, ³ 

Then Samuel said, “Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites.” So Agag came to him trembling, ¹  thinking to himself, ²  “Surely death is bitter!” ³ 

Abner advised ¹  the elders of Israel, “Previously you were wanting David to be your king. ² 

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again ¹  what has occurred ²  in the past. ³ 

“Don’t remember these earlier events; ¹  don’t recall these former events.

(The Emites ¹  used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

Then a breath of air ¹  passes ²  by my face; it makes ³  the hair of my flesh stand up.

After God spoke long ago ¹  in various portions ²  and in various ways ³  to our ancestors ⁴  through the prophets,

In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ¹  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus ¹  so as not to spend time ²  in the province of Asia, ³  for he was hurrying ⁴  to arrive in Jerusalem, ⁵  if possible, ⁶  by the day of Pentecost.