Ecclesiastes 1:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The sun comes up, the sun goes down; it hurries right back to where it started from.

See the chapter Copy

As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat; winter and summer, day and night.

As a deer gets thirsty for streams of water, I truly am thirsty for you, my God.

and killed with arrows. He was no more than a bird rushing into a trap, without knowing it would cost him his life.

I, the LORD, have an agreement with day and night, so they always come at the right time. You can't break the agreement I made with them,

The sun and moon stood still, while your arrows and spears flashed like lightning.