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Indeed, provisions will be so cheap upon earth that people will imagine that peace is assured for them, and then calamities shall spring up on the earth—the sword, famine, and great confusion.
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For many of those who live on the earth shall perish by famine; and those who survive the famine shall die by the sword.
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And the dead shall be thrown out like dung, and there shall be no one to console them; for the earth shall be left desolate, and its cities shall be demolished.
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No one shall be left to cultivate the earth or to sow it.
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The trees shall bear fruit, but who will gather it?
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The grapes shall ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there shall be great solitude;
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a person will long to see another human being, or even to hear a human voice.
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For ten shall be left out of a city; and two, out of the field, those who have hidden themselves in thick groves and clefts in the rocks.
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Just as in an olive orchard three or four olives may be left on every tree,
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or just as, when a vineyard is gathered, some clusters may be left by those who search carefully through the vineyard,
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so in those days three or four shall be left by those who search their houses with the sword.