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when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along[a] and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped,[b] and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern,

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  1. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:6 Syr Vg Compare Gk: Heb is removed

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