Ecclesiastes 1:5 “The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.”

Ecclesiastes 1:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

American Standard Version

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

Geneva Bible 1599

The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.

Darby Translation

The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

Young's Literal Translation

Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

Bible in Basic English

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

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Cross references

“sun”

Psalm 19:4–6 Genesis 8:22 Psalm 104:19–23 Jeremiah 33:20 Psalm 89:36 Psalm 89:37

Psalm 19:4–6 · BSB

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.

Genesis 8:22 · BSB

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

Psalm 104:19–23 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 33:20 · BSB

“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,

Psalm 89:36 · BSB

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

Psalm 89:37 · BSB

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

“hasteth”

Psalm 42:1 Habakkuk 3:11 Joshua 10:13 Joshua 10:14

Psalm 42:1 · BSB

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

Habakkuk 3:11 · BSB

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Joshua 10:13 · BSB

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 da…

Joshua 10:14 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

Read Ecclesiastes 1