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    The land will resemble a field stripped until it is nearly bare,
        like when the harvest has come and gone,
        like the meager grain gleaned in the valley of Rephaim.

    But some gleanings will remain
        like when olive trees are beaten,
    Where two or three olives remain at the top of a tree
        and four or five hold on tight to its fruitful branches.

So says the Eternal One, Israel’s God.

Then, in that day, people will turn to the One who shaped them.
    They’ll look on the Creator, the Holy One of Israel,

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It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
    gathering(A) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain(B)
    in the Valley of Rephaim.(C)
Yet some gleanings will remain,(D)
    as when an olive tree is beaten,(E)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
    four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

In that day(F) people will look(G) to their Maker(H)
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One(I) of Israel.

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