Obadiah 1:5
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes?
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Jeremiah 49:9
wouldn’t they leave some gleanings?
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.
2 Samuel 1:19
How the mighty have fallen!
Isaiah 14:12
how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
Isaiah 17:6
as if an olive tree had been beaten—
two or three berries at the very top of the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches.
This is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Israel.
Isaiah 24:13
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
Jeremiah 50:23
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
Lamentations 1:1
the city
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
Micah 7:1
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.
Zephaniah 2:15
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers
Revelation 18:10
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
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If robbers
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If robbers
wouldn’t they leave some gleanings?
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.
How
How the mighty have fallen!
how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
the city
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
If the
as if an olive tree had been beaten—
two or three berries at the very top of the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches.
This is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Israel.
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.
General references
as if an olive tree had been beaten—
two or three berries at the very top of the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches.
This is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Israel.