Ecclesiastes 12
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Ecclesiastes 12:2-5

2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,1

4And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding shall be low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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  1. 1. Ecclesiastes 12:3 the grinders...: or, the grinders fail, because they grind little ↩

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Revised Webster's Bible — 1833 — Public Domain