Ecclesiastes 3:1–13 Download

CAST:
Narrator + 14 Voices [from within congregation]

Narrator:
Hear these words from the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 3.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

VOICE 1:
a time to be born, and a time to die;

VOICE 2:
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

VOICE 3:
a time to kill, and a time to heal;

VOICE 4:
a time to break down, and a time to build up;

VOICE 5:
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

VOICE 6:
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

VOICE 7:

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

VOICE 8:
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

VOICE 9:
a time to seek, and a time to lose;

VOICE 10:
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

VOICE 11:
a time to tear, and a time to sew;

VOICE 12:
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

VOICE 13:
a time to love, and a time to hate;

VOICE 14:
a time for war, and a time for peace.

NARRATOR:
What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.