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and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; yea, they shall be afraid [a]of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper [b]shall be a burden, and [c]desire shall [d]fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: before the silver cord is [e]loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

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  1. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, of danger from on high
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, shall drag itself along
  3. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, the caperberry
  4. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, burst
  5. Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or, snapped asunder