The sun rises, and the sun goes down and hurries to the place where it rises.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”
As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.
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.