Ecclesiastes 12:5
when people are afraid of heights and of dangers on the road, when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper-berry no longer stirs desire, because everyone goes to their eternal home, and mourners go about in the streets,
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Practical Religion ·
Prayer cites Eccles. xii. 5
…to keep them to themselves they will find one day that the very grasshopper is a burden. (Eccles. xii. 5.) There is a friend ever waiting to help us, if we will only unbosom to Him our sorrow,—a…
- Practical Religion ·
Sickness cites Eccles. xii. 5
…turn the strongest into a little child, and make him feel "the grasshopper a burden." (Eccles. xii. 5.) It can unnerve the boldest, and make him tremble at the fall of a pin. We are…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Eighth Stage cites Ecclesiastes 12:5
…is true, take this for a proof: so he gave him a grasshopper to be a burden unto him. Ecclesiastes 12:5. Now Mr. Despondency’s daughter, whose name was Much-afraid, said, when she heard what…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Eccl 12: 5
…for old age; whose grey hairs are resembled to the white flowers of the almond-tree. Eccl 12: 5. There are fathers for seniority, on whose wrinkled brows, and in the furrows of whose…
- Selected Sermons of George Whitefield ·
The Care of the Soul Urged as the One Thing Needful cites Eccl. 12:5
…in years; though your strength be impaired so that the “grasshopper is a burthen,” Eccl. 12:5, and though you have by your long continuance in sin, rendered this great work so hard…