5Also 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:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: …
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here is, I. A call to young people to think of God, and mind their duty to him, when they are young: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth . This is, 1. The royal preacher’s application of his sermon concerning the vanity of the world and every thing in it. “You that are young flatter yourselves with expectations of great things from it, but believe those that have tried it; it yields…
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