Ecclesiastes 12:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ and the doors on the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ When the doors [the lips] are shut in the streets and the sound of the grinding [of the teeth] is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird and the crowing of a cock, and all the daughters of music [the voice and the ear] are brought low;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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;

Common English Bible

⁴ when the doors to the street are shut, when the sound of the mill fades, the sound of the bird rises, and all the singers come down low;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they will close the doors to the street, when the voice of he who grinds the grain will be humbled, and they will be disturbed at the sound of a flying thing, and all the daughters of song shall become deaf.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder's voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpers and minstrels, of flute players and trumpeters, shall be heard in thee no more; and a craftsman of any craft shall be found in thee no more; and the sound of the millstone shall be heard in thee no more;