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vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;
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olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
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`Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;
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all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
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the sojourner who [is] in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
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he doth lend [to] thee, and thou dost not lend [to] him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
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`And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
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and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.
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`Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --
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thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
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`Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,