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Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 12:4-6
English Standard Version
4 and (A)the doors on the street are shut—when (B)the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all (C)the daughters of song are brought low— 5 they are afraid also of what is high, and (D)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his (E)eternal (F)home, and the (G)mourners go about the streets— 6 before the silver cord is snapped, or (H)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is (I)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
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- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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