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You will barely be able to hear the mill as it grinds or music as it plays, but even the song of a bird will wake you from sleep. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/1.htm">Ecclesiastes</a> > <a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ecclesiastes/12-3.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 12:3">◄</a> Ecclesiastes 12:4 <a href="../ecclesiastes/12-5.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 12:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ecclesiastes/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Your ears will be deaf to the noise of the street. You will barely be able to hear the mill as it grinds or music as it plays, but even the song of a bird will wake you from sleep. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ecclesiastes/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ecclesiastes/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The noisy grinding of grain and the voices of singers will be shut out by your deaf ears, but even the song of a bird will keep you awake. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ecclesiastes/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When the doors to the street are shut, and the sound of the mill is low; When one rises at the call of a bird, and all the daughters of song are quiet; <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ecclesiastes/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">all</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/19-35.htm">2 Samuel 19:35</a> I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ecclesiastes/12.htm">Remember Your Creator</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened: <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">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.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../revelation/18-22.htm">Revelation 18:22</a></span><br />And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_samuel/19-35.htm">2 Samuel 19:35</a></span><br />I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/47-2.htm">Isaiah 47:2</a></span><br />Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-10.htm">Jeremiah 25:10</a></span><br />And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/31-28.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-20.htm">Bird</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-12.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-19.htm">Bowed</a> <a href="/psalms/17-10.htm">Closed</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-7.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-19.htm">Doors</a> <a href="/psalms/90-6.htm">Fades</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Grinding</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Grow</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-18.htm">Low</a> <a href="/judges/16-21.htm">Mill</a> <a href="/psalms/150-3.htm">Music</a> <a href="/luke/15-25.htm">Musick</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-6.htm">Noise</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-4.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-4.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-4.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-7.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-6.htm">Sing</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-15.htm">Soft</a> <a href="/psalms/42-4.htm">Softly</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-5.htm">Song</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-20.htm">Songs</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-20.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-8.htm">Start</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm">Street</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-13.htm">Streets</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-20.htm">Voice</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/songs/2-10.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm">Bird</a> <a href="/songs/2-12.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-9.htm">Bowed</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm">Closed</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-15.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/songs/1-5.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/songs/7-13.htm">Doors</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-30.htm">Fades</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-15.htm">Grinding</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Grow</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-9.htm">Low</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm">Mill</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-11.htm">Music</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm">Musick</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-14.htm">Noise</a> <a href="/songs/2-10.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-19.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-8.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/songs/4-12.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Sing</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm">Soft</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-6.htm">Softly</a> <a href="/songs/1-1.htm">Song</a> <a href="/songs/1-1.htm">Songs</a> <a href="/songs/5-2.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm">Start</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm">Street</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-5.htm">Streets</a> <a href="/songs/2-8.htm">Voice</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and are arise as at bird birds but closed daughters doors fades faint grinding grow is low men mill of on one rise shut sing softly song songs sound street the their to up when will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 12:4 And the doors shall be shut (Ecclesiast. 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