Ecclesiastes 1:5

Translations

Modern

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

Traditional

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Literal

And the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place, panting, it is rising there.

Latin

Oritur sol et occidit, et ad locum suum revertitur; ibique renascens,

Original

Hebrew

English

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

Notes

Ecclesiastes 1:2–11

The Teacher starts by noting that every natural and historical activity has a repetitive cycle of coming and going, existing and not existing. This can cause some to feel that everything is meaningless. The Teacher quickly shifts from one topic to another and ends this section with the topic he began with, using a literary style that reflects the cycles he describes in nature and human history.

Related verses

Psalm 42:1
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Psalm 19:4–6
…their 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.
Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
Psalm 89:36–37
…his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
Psalm 104:19–23
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
Joshua 10:13–14
So 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.”
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
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,

Glossary

Book of Ecclesiastes Futility

Topics

Astronomy: Sidereal Phenomena Covetousness: General Scriptures Concerning Sun: Rising and Setting of

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