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Psalms 19:5
Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist describes the sun’s daily movement across the sky, immediately following the statement that God has pitched a tent for it in the heavens.
The words — The text employs כּ֭/חָתָן (ke./cha.ton), literally “like a bridegroom,” and יָשִׂ֥ישׂ (ya.Sis), literally “it rejoices,” to describe the sun’s emergence.
The thread — The bridegroom metaphor appears in Isaiah 62:5, while the concept of pressing toward a defined goal parallels Philippians 3:13.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to first acknowledge the sun’s relentless, joy-driven path as a physical mechanism before considering any spiritual application. It demands attention to the created order as a direct illustration of purposeful motion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
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.
- Philippians 3:13 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,
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24 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.
- Hebrews 12:1 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.
- Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
- 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.