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 saith, 'My son doth not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'

when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days.

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?' And I say, 'A rod of an almond tree I am seeing.'

Because

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

The mourners

and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;

General references

And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which is Hebron), in the land of Canaan;

Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?