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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.
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The earth shall be left desolate, and its fields shall be plowed up, 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 help.
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Their bridegrooms shall be killed in war, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
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Listen now to these things, and understand them, you who are servants of the Lord.
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This is the word of the Lord; receive it and do not disbelieve what the Lord says.