Ecclesiastes 12:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

Today I am 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 its face? There is terror all around its teeth.

Isaiah 47:2

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

Jeremiah 25:10

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

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,