Ecclesiastes 1:5

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.

the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.

They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;