OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 12:4

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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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Verse 4. Doors. The lips, ( Calmet.) feet, (Chal.) nostrils, (Vat.) or the trachea and pulmonary arteries.—Bird. The cock-crowing; or at the least sound their slumbers are broken.—Deaf. Hebrew “be low.” The ears cannot enjoy music, nor can the voice of the old people please. 2 Kennicott. 19:25.

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