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Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
American Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
American Standard Version
4 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; 5 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: 6 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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- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, of danger from on high
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, shall drag itself along
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, the caperberry
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, burst
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or, snapped asunder
Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
New International Version
4 when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;(A)
5 when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home(B)
and mourners(C) go about the streets.
6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
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