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yea, they shall be afraid [a]of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper [b]shall be a burden, and [c]desire shall [d]fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: before the silver cord is [e]loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, of danger from on high
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, shall drag itself along
  3. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, the caperberry
  4. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, burst
  5. Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or, snapped asunder