Ecclesiastes 1:5

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Ecclesiastes 1:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

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

6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Psalms 19:4

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.

Psalms 19:5

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

Psalms 19:6

it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalms 89:36

his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

Psalms 89:37

like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

Psalms 104:19

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

Psalms 104:20

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalms 104:21

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

Psalms 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

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,

Joshua 10:13

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.”

Joshua 10:14

There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

Psalms 42:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

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.