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.’

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

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.

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

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

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

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 

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

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

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.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians ¹  desire. ²  You lived then ³  in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, ⁴  and wanton idolatries. ⁵ 

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

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

he does great and unsearchable things, ¹  and wonderful things without number.

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

who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you ¹  and me.