'Pluck' in the Bible

“When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears of grain with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain [to harvest it].

then I will uproot Israel from My land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My Name, out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and an object of scorn among all nations.

“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

“They pluck [and eat] saltwort (mallows) among the bushes,And their food is the root of the broom shrub.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,For He will bring my feet out of the net.

But God will break you down forever;He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges,So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

A time to be born and a time to die;A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

Thus says the Lord regarding all My evil neighbors (Gentile nations) who strike at the inheritance which I have granted to My people Israel, “Behold, I will uproot them from their land and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

But if [any nation] will not listen and obey, I will [completely] uproot and destroy that nation, says the Lord.”

At one moment I might [suddenly] speak concerning a nation or kingdom, that I will uproot and break down and destroy;

For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overwhelm them, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good],” says the Lord.

Say this to him, ‘The Lord speaks in this way, “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, that is, the whole land.”

Thus says the Lord God, ‘Ask, “Will it thrive? Will he (Nebuchadnezzar) not uproot it and strip off its fruit so that all its sprouting leaves will wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to uproot it [ending Israel’s national existence].

“Therefore, I will return and take back My grain at harvest timeAnd My new wine in its season.I will also take away My wool and My flaxGiven to cover her nakedness.

“You who hate good and love evil,Who tear the skin off my peopleAnd their flesh from their bones;