The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
till an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
“I, Lord, make the following promise: ‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant
The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.