'Cold' in the Bible
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
As it was, I was attacked by drought during the day and by cold at night. I never got any decent rest.
Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.
Filled with waters made cold by ice, they are where the snow goes to hide.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out];I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.
He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
(The Shulammite Bride)“Awake, O north wind,And come, south wind [blow softly upon my garden];Make my garden breathe out fragrance, [for the one in whom my soul delights],Let its spices flow forth.Let my beloved come into his gardenAnd eat its choicest fruits.” Cross references: Song of Solomon 4:7 : John 14:18; Eph 5:27 Song of Solomon 4:8 : 2 Cor 11:2, 3 Song of Solomon 4:10 : John 15:9; Rom 8:35 Song of Solomon 4:13 : John 15:5; Eph 5:9 Song of Solomon 4:15 : John 4:10; 7:37, 38 end of crossrefs
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He hath none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night;
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are continually poorly dressed, and we are roughly treated, and wander homeless.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.