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# terrors along the road
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"things along the road that frighten them"
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# when the almond tree blossoms
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The "almond tree" is a tree that blossoms in the winter with white flowers.
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# when grasshoppers drag themselves along
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A large, straight-winged insect that has the ability to jump a long way. Here it has gotten old and weak.
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# when natural desires fail
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"when people no longer desire what they once did naturally"
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# Then the man goes to his eternal home
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"Then the man goes to the place of the dead forever" or "Then the person dies and never returns to life"
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# the mourners go around in the streets
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Possible meanings are: that mourners go around in the streets to attend a funeral, or that mourners go around in the streets to the house of the person who is about to die. |