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and (A)the doors on the street are shut—when (B)the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all (C)the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and (D)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his (E)eternal (F)home, and the (G)mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or (H)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is (I)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

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  1. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden