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If thieves came to you, robbers by night
    —how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal merely till they had enough?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave some gleanings?[a](A)

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  1. 5 Something of value may escape the thief, and the grape picker always leaves something for the gleaners, but God’s devastation of Edom will be complete.

“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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