Ecclesiastes 1:9–10

What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done,

and there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said,

“See, this is new”?

It has been already

in the ages before us.

What has been will be again,

what has been done will be done again;

there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one can say,

“Look! This is something new”?

It was here already, long ago;

it was here before our time.

What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done;

there is nothing new under the sun.

Can one say about anything,

“Look, this is new”?

It has already existed in the ages before us.

History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.

What has been—it is what will be;

what has been done—it is what will be done;

there is nothing new under the sun.

There is a thing of which it is said, “Look at this! This is new!”

But it already existed in ages past before us.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.