Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

1 Remember also your Creator in 1the days of your youth, before 2the evil days come and the years draw near of which 3you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

Ecclesiastes 12:1 In-Context

1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";
2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,
3 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,
4 and the doors on the street are shut--when 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--
5 they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets--

Cross References 3

  • 1. [Lamentations 3:27]
  • 2. [Ecclesiastes 11:8]
  • 3. [2 Samuel 19:35]
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