Ecclesiastes 12:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When men shall feare in hye places, and be afraide in the streetes, when the Almonde tree shall florishe and be laden with the grashopper, and when all lust shal passe: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streetes.

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  • Job 17:13 : 13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 Age is a crowne of worshyp, yf it be founde in the way of ryghteousnesse.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Moreouer, thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Beware of the vengeaunce that hangeth ouer you, and call for mourning wiues, and sende for wyse women, that they come shortly, 18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water. 19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges. 20 Yet heare the worde of the Lorde (O ye women) and let your eares regarde the wordes of his mouth: that ye may learne your daughters to mourne, and that euery one may teache her neighbour to make lamentation
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 And he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sawe the tumult, and them that wept & wayled greatly. 39 And went in, and sayde vnto them: why make ye this a doe, and wepe? the damsell is not dead, but slepeth.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appoynted vnto men once to dye, and after this the iudgement:
  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The strength of young men is their worship, and a gray head is an honour vnto the aged.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoeuer thou takest in hande to do, that do with al thy power: for in the graue that thou goest vnto, there is neither worke, counsayle, knowledge, nor wysdome.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 It is euen I whiche shall beare you vnto your last age: I haue made you, I wyll also norishe you, beare you, and saue you.
  • Jer 1:11 : 11 After this the Lorde spake vnto me, saying: Ieremie, what seest thou? And I sayd, I see a rod of an Almond tree.
  • Ps 49:10-14 : 10 For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other. 11 And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: therfore they call landes after their owne names. 12 Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in such honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe. 13 This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying. Selah. 14 They shalbe put into a graue dead as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell shall receaue them from their house.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said: My sonne shall not go downe with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if destruction come vpon hym by the way whiche ye go, ye shall bring my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue.
  • Gen 44:29 : 29 And if ye take this also away from me, and destruction come vnto him, ye shall bryng my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue.
  • Gen 44:31 : 31 Then shall it come to passe, that assoone as he seeth that the lad is not come, he wyll dye: so shall we thy seruauntes bryng the gray head of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue.
  • Gen 50:3-9 : 3 And fourtie dayes were continued (for so long doth the imbawmyng last) and the Egyptians mourned for him thre score and ten dayes. 4 And when the dayes of mournyng were ended, Ioseph spake vnto ye house of Pharao, saying: If I haue founde fauour in your eyes, speake I pray you in the eares of Pharao, saying: 5 My father made me sweare, & sayde, Lo I dye, bury me in the graue which I haue made me in the lande of Chanaan. Nowe therfore let me go vp I pray thee, and bury my father, and then wyl I come agayne. 6 And Pharao sayde: Go vp, and bury thy father, accordyng as he made thee sweare. 7 And Ioseph went vp to bury his father, and with hym went all the seruautes of Pharao that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of the lande of Egypt: 8 And all the house of Ioseph and his brethren, and his fathers house: onlye their chyldren, and their sheepe, & their cattell, left they behynde in the lande of Gosen. 9 And there went with hym also charrettes and horsemen: and it was an exceedyng great companie. 10 And they came to the corne floore of Atad, which is beyonde Iordane, and there they made a great and exceedyng sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seuen dayes.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt ryse vp before the hore head, and reuerence the face of the olde man, and dreade thy God: I am the Lorde.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With vs are both olde and aged men, yea such as haue liued longer then thy father.

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    2 Before the sunne, the light, the moone, and starres be darkened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne:

    3 When the kepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bowe them selues, when the milners stand styll because they be so fewe, and when the sight of the windowes shall waxe dimme:

    4 When the doores in the streetes shalbe shut, and when the voyce of the milner shalbe layde downe, when men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde, and when all the daughters of musicke shalbe brought lowe:

  • 12 The wine is dryed vp, and the figge tree is decayed, the pomgranate tree, and the paulme, & the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered vp: for ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

  • 11 Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:

  • 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

  • 4 So that the floure of his fayrenesse and beautie whiche is in the head of the valley of fatnesse, shall fade away as doth an vntimely ripe figge before haruest: whiche when a man espieth, he loketh vpon it, and whyle it is yet in his hande he eateth it vp.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him?

    11 As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp:

    12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.

  • 14 So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted in their heyght, nor shoot vp their toppes among the thycke bowes, neither shall their trees stande in their heyght, as many of them as drinke water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the neather partes of the earth, in the mids of the children of men among them that go downe to the pit.

  • 22 His soule draweth vnto the graue, and his lyfe to death.

  • 2 It is better to go into an house of mourning, then into a banketting house: For there is the ende of all men, and he that is liuing taketh it to heart.

  • 27 Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you.

  • 26 Thou shalt come also to thy graue in a full age, like a corne sheafe cut downe in due season.

  • 4 Howe long shall the lande mourne, and all the hearbes of the fielde perishe for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin? The cattell and the birdes are gone, yet say they, tushe, God wyll not destroy vs vtterly.

  • 17 For the figgetree shall not floorish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall fayle, & the fieldes shall yelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut of from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

  • 11 For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.

  • 12 No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:

  • 4 The earth is sory and consumeth away, the worlde is feeble & perisheth, the proude people of the earth are come to naught.

  • 8 If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.

  • 33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

  • 15 All fleshe shall come to naught at once, and all men shall turne againe vnto dust.

  • 12 For as the infantes weepe when their mothers teates are dryed vp: so shall you weepe for your faire fieldes and fruitfull vineyardes.

  • 20 They go all vnto one place: for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turne vnto dust agayne.

  • 15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

  • 16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?

  • 12 Hope deferred greeueth the heart: but whe the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

  • 6 And in those dayes shall men seke death, and shall not fynde it, and shall desire to dye, and death shall flee from them.

  • 16 These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.

  • 26 They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

  • 12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?

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    15 The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde.

    16 For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more seene: and the place therof knoweth it no more.

  • 17 The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered.

  • 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.

  • 30 For ye shalbe as a tree whose leaues are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

  • 17 All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.

  • 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.

  • 5 Fearefulnes and trembling are come vpon me: and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me.

  • 12 Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in such honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe.

  • 20 They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.

  • 13 For in the middes of the lande, euen among the people, it shall come to passe as at the shaking of oliues, and as the grapes are when the wine haruest is done.

  • 9 The desolate earth is in heauinesse, Libanus is shamed and hewen downe, Saron is like a wildernesse, Basan and Charmel are spoyled of their fruites.

  • 6 Yea, though he lyued two thousande yeres, yet hath he no good lyfe: Come not all to one place?

  • 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

  • 10 I thought I shoulde haue gone to the gates of hell when myne age was shortened, and haue wanted the residue of my yeres.