Psalm 19:5
New International Version
It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

New Living Translation
It bursts forth like a radiant bridegroom after his wedding. It rejoices like a great athlete eager to run the race.

English Standard Version
which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

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

King James Bible
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

New King James Version
Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.

New American Standard Bible
Which is like a groom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices like a strong person to run his course.

NASB 1995
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

NASB 1977
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

Legacy Standard Bible
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

Amplified Bible
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

Christian Standard Bible
It is like a bridegroom coming from his home; it rejoices like an athlete running a course.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is like a groom coming from the bridal chamber; it rejoices like an athlete running a course.

American Standard Version
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he is like a bridegroom who goes forth from the place of the bridal bed; he will leap for joy like a mighty man to run his course.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

Contemporary English Version
It rises like a bridegroom and gets ready like a hero eager to run a race.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he, as a bridegroom coming out of his bride chamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:

English Revised Version
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
which comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course.

Good News Translation
it comes out in the morning like a happy bridegroom, like an athlete eager to run a race.

International Standard Version
which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, or like a champion who rejoices at the beginning of a race.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

Literal Standard Version
And he, as a bridegroom, goes out from his covering, | He rejoices as a mighty one | To run the path.

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

New American Bible
it comes forth like a bridegroom from his canopy, and like a hero joyfully runs its course.

NET Bible
Like a bridegroom it emerges from its chamber; like a strong man it enjoys running its course.

New Revised Standard Version
which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.

New Heart English Bible
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

Webster's Bible Translation
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
4their 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. 5 Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course, 6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.…

Cross References
Psalm 19:4
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.

Psalm 19:6
it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Joel 2:16
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.


Treasury of Scripture

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

bridegroom

Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

John 3:29
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

rejoiceth

Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

1 Corinthians 9:24-26
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain…

Philippians 3:13,14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, …

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Psalm 19
1. The creatures show God's glory
7. The excellence of the divine law
12. David prays for grace














(5) Which is.--Better, and he is. The suddenness of the Oriental sunrise is finely caught in the image of the uplifted tent-curtain and appearance of the radiant hero ("strong man;" Heb., gibbor. Comp. Judges 5:31). This want of twilight, this absence of silent preparation for the supreme moment, distinguishes Eastern songs of sunrise from the poetry of the West. There are no musterings of "mute companies of changeful clouds," no "avant couriers of the light," no "grey lines fretting the clouds as messengers of day." Unheralded, unannounced, the sun leaps forth in all his splendour--a young bridegroom with the joy of the wedding-day still on his countenance, a hero leaping forth on his path of conquest and glory. How different the suggested feeling of this from the wistful tenderness of Milton's dawn coming forth "with pilgrim steps in amice grey;" or Shakespeare's "morn in russet clad," that "walks o'er the dew" of the high eastern hill.

Chamber.--Heb., chuphah, a marriage chamber or bed (Joel 2:16). In later Hebrew the canopy carried over the wedded pair, or even the marriage itself.

Rejoiceth.--Literally, leaps for joy.

A race.--Better, his race, i.e., his daily course or journey.

Verse 5. - Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; literally, and he is as a bridegroom. The bridegroom went forth to meet the bride in glorious apparel, and "preceded by a blaze of torch-light" (Kay). The sun's "chamber" is where he passes the night - below the earth; from this he bursts forth at morning in his full glory, scattering the darkness, and lighting up his splendid "tabernacle." And rejoiceth as a strong man-to run a race (comp. Judges 5:31, "As the sun when he goeth forth in his might"). The Prayer-book Version, if less literal, better conveys the spirit of the original.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
like a bridegroom
כְּ֭חָתָן (kə·ḥā·ṯān)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2860: A relative by marriage, a circumcised child

emerging
יֹצֵ֣א (yō·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from his chamber,
מֵחֻפָּת֑וֹ (mê·ḥup·pā·ṯōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2646: A canopy, chamber

like a champion
כְּ֝גִבּ֗וֹר (kə·ḡib·bō·wr)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

rejoicing
יָשִׂ֥ישׂ (yā·śîś)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7797: To be bright, cheerful

to run
לָר֥וּץ (lā·rūṣ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7323: To run

his course.
אֹֽרַח׃ (’ō·raḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan


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