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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.
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Virgins shall mourn because they have no bridegrooms; women shall mourn because they have no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, because they have no helpers.
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Their bridegrooms shall be killed in war, and their husbands shall perish of famine.