Ecclesiastes 12:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

The almond

Because

Hebrews 9:27

The mourners

Genesis 50:3

Jeremiah 9:17

Mark 5:38

General references

Genesis 23:19

Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

The almond

And he said, My son shall not go down with you, - For, his brother, is dead and, he alone, is left, and as surely as there befall him any mischief by the way wherein ye go, so surely shall ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hades.

And I have never seen him since. As surely as ye take, this one also, away from before my face and there befall him any mischief, so surely shall ye bring down my grey hairs, with misfortune to hades.

Before a hoary head, shalt thou rise up, And shalt honour the presence of an elder, - So shalt thou stand in awe of thy God - I, am Yahweh.

Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!

Even now, therefore, that I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, - Until I tell of thine arm unto a new generation, Unto every one that is to come, thy might;

A crown of adorning, is a hoary head, in the way of righteousness, it should be found.

The beauty of young men, is their strength, and, the ornament of old men, a hoary head.

Even unto old age, I, am, the same, And unto grey hairs, I, will bear the burden, - I have made and, I, will carry, Yea, I, will bear the burden and will deliver,

Moreover the Word of Yahweh came unto me saying, What canst thou see Jeremiah? And I said, A twig of an almond-tree, can I see.

Because

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do, - for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.

For it is seen that, the wise, die, Together with the dullard, and the brutish, do they perish, And leave, to others, their wealth:

And, inasmuch as it is in store for men - once for all to die, but after this, judgment,

The mourners

And they fulfilled for him forty days, for so, are they wont to fulfil the days of the embalmed, - and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye diligently and call for the wailing women that they may come, - And unto the wise women, send ye, that they may come;

And they come into the house of the synagogue-ruler, and he observeth a tumult, and persons weeping and wailing greatly;

General references

And after this, did Abraham bury Sarah his wife, within the cave of the field of Machpelah, over against Mamre, the same, is Hebron, - in the land of Canaan.

Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age-abiding, do they live?