As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”
Ecclesiastes 1:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The sun rises, and the sun goes down and hurries to the place where it rises. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The sun also rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. American Standard Version (1901) The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth. Common English Bible The sun rises, the sun sets; it returns panting to the place where it dawns. Catholic Public Domain Version The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again, |
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”
until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.
Thus says the Lord: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,
the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.