10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time(A) or pick up the grapes that have fallen.(B) Leave them for the poor and the foreigner.(C) I am the Lord your God.

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13 So will it be on the earth
    and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,(A)
    or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.(B)

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Yet some gleanings will remain,(A)
    as when an olive tree is beaten,(B)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
    four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year(A) will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

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Israel’s Misery

What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers summer fruit
    at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
    none of the early figs(A) that I crave.

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“If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?(A)

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If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?
If thieves came during the night,
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?

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But he answered them, “What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren’t the gleanings of Ephraim’s grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?(A)

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