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[a]Only gleanings shall be left in it,
    as when an olive tree has been beaten—
Two or three olives at the very top,
    four or five on its most fruitful branches—
    oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:6 Olives not easily picked by hand were knocked from the tree by means of a long stick; cf. 24:13.

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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12 But all your fortresses are fig trees,
    bearing early figs;[a]
When shaken, they fall
    into the devourer’s mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:12 Early figs: the refugees from Nineveh who escape to presumably secure fortresses.

12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
    with their first ripe fruit;(A)
when they are shaken,
    the figs(B) fall into the mouth of the eater.

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