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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 cast 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, and who will gather it?
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The grapes shall ripen, and who will tread them? For in all places there shall be great solitude;
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one man will long to see another, or even to hear his voice.
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For out of a city, ten shall be left; and out of the field, two who have hidden themselves in thick groves and clefts in the rocks.
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As in an olive orchard three or four olives may be left on every tree,
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or 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.
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And the earth shall be left desolate, and its fields shall be for briers, and its roads and all its paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep will go along them.