And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Doors. The lips, (Calmet) feet, (Chaldean) nostrils, (Vatable) or the trachea and pulmonary arteries.
Bird. The cock-crowing; or at the least sound their slumbers are broken.
Deaf. Hebrew, "be low. "The ears cannot enjoy music, nor can the voice of the old people please, 2 Kings xix. 25.