Ecclesiastes 1:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Ecclesiastes 1:5 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 1:5 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Joshua 10:13So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
- Psalms 19:4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
- Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
- Psalms 89:36his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
- Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
- Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).