Ecclesiastes 12:4

World English Bible (2000)

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;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
  • Jer 25:10 : 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

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  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    86%

    2Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • Eccl 12:5-6
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    5yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

    6before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

  • Lam 5:13-15
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    13The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

    14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

    15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

  • Isa 24:7-13
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    7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

    8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

    9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

    10The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

    11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

    12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

    13For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • 22The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

  • 10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

  • Isa 32:9-10
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    9Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

    10For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.

  • 12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

  • 34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

  • 41two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

  • 13I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

  • 10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  • 18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

  • 35There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

  • 3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

  • 14Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

  • 20Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

  • 10In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • 12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 26Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • 31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • 12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

  • 3The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

  • 9For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

  • 10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

  • 63You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 20Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

  • 33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • 12The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  • 4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

  • 17For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • 11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • 13In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

  • 16Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

  • 13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

  • 16Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

  • 5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

  • 2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.