Psalms 19:5

3 Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

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.

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

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

7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,
KJV
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
WEB
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
ASV
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.
DARBY
And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.
BLB
and it [is] like a bridegroom going forth from his chamber, rejoicing like a strong man to run the path.
ÅB
Og den er som en brudgom som går ut av sitt brudekammer;
som en sterk mann gleder den seg til å løpe sin bane.
OTB
Som en brudgom som kommer ut av sitt kammer;
Den gleder seg som en helt til å løpe sin bane.
B1930
Og den er som en brudgom som går ut av sitt brudekammer; den gleder sig som en helt til å løpe sin bane.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 62:5

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

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  • Philippians 3:13–14

    Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

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  • Isaiah 61:10

    I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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  • 1 Corinthians 9:24–26

    Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

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  • Hebrews 12:1–2

    Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

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  • John 3:29

    The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

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  • Ecclesiastes 1:5

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

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