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Psalm 19:5
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
4Their 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,
5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
6His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.
7The LORD’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
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A bridegroom leaving his room and a strong man eager to run turn the sun’s familiar rising into a picture of vigor and delight.
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1 Corinthians 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.Both use the image of running: the psalm describes the sun’s joyful course, while Corinthians urges runners toward the prize.
Isaiah 62:5For 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.Both use a bridegroom comparison, with Isaiah naming the bridegroom’s joy over his bride to describe God’s joy over his people.
Philippians 3:13–14Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which …The shared thread is forward movement: the strong man runs his course, while Paul describes stretching toward what lies ahead.
Psalm 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.Both connect the movement of daylight with joy, through the sun’s rejoicing course and the songs accompanying dawn and evening.
Isaiah 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! 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 …Both bring bridegroom imagery into a passage of rejoicing; Isaiah adds wedding garments to express joy in God’s salvation.
Hebrews 12:1–2Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run …Both picture running a course, though Hebrews addresses perseverance and hindrances while the psalm describes the sun through a strong man’s joy.
Job 39:21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.Both portray strength with rejoicing and outward movement, though Job’s scene leads toward armed men.
Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.Both portray the sun in motion, with Ecclesiastes tracing its return and the psalm comparing its course to joyful running.
John 3:29He 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. …Both include a bridegroom and rejoicing, though John locates the expressed joy in the friend who hears the bridegroom’s voice.
Joel 2:16Gather 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, …Both describe a bridegroom going out of his room; Joel makes that departure part of gathering the people.
Joel 2:7They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.Both compare movement to strong men running a course, though Joel’s runners also climb walls like warriors.
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There is room to take delight in a morning you did nothing to make. God has set a tent for the sun, and the poem pictures its course with joy.
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