Jeremiah 49:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some ungleaned grapes? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only what is enough [for them]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

Common English Bible

⁹ If workers would come to you to pick grapes, they would at least leave a few on the vine. If thieves would come in the night, they would take only what they needed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If those who gather grapes had passed by you, would they not have left behind a cluster? If there were thieves in the night, they would seize what was enough for themselves.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? If thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.

Jeremiah 49:9 Cross References

Isaiah 17:6

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches.”

Leviticus 19:9

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.