Jeremiah 49:9 - Easy To Read Version “Workers pick grapes from grapevines.\par But they leave a few grapes on the plants.\par If thieves come at night,\par they don’t take everything.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
That time will also be like the time people harvest olives. People knock olives from olive trees. But a few olives are usually left at the top of the tree. Four or five olives are left on some of the top branches. It will be the same for those cities. The Lord All-Powerful said those things.
This is what the Lord All-Powerful says:\par “Gather {\cf2\super [41]} the people of Israel\par that were left on their land.\par Gather them the way you would gather\par the last grapes on a grapevine.\par Check each vine, like a worker checks\par each vine when he picks the grapes.”\par
“When you cut your crops at harvest time, don’t cut all the way to the corners of your fields. And if grain falls on the ground, you must not gather up that grain.