There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.
Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;
Then he said to the representatives who had come, Say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is high, you will be made safe. And the representatives came and gave the news to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,
And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.
And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.
And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood.
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.
It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.
And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!
And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.
The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:
In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.
And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.
You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.
And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
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