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.

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

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

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

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,

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