Jeremiah 49:9

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If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave a few gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not steal only what they needed?

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  • Obad 1:5-6 : 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—oh, how you would be ruined!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? 6 How Esau has been pillaged; his hidden treasures sought out!
  • Isa 17:6 : 6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that is beaten: two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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  • Obad 1:5-9
    5 verses
    89%

    5If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—oh, how you would be ruined!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

    6How Esau has been pillaged; his hidden treasures sought out!

    7All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set a trap under you—there is no understanding in him.

    8Will I not, on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

    9Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

  • Jer 49:10
    76%

    10But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he cannot hide. His descendants, brothers, and neighbors are destroyed, and he is no more.

  • Jer 49:8
    75%

    8Flee! Turn back! Hide deep in the caves, O inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring calamity upon Esau at the time of my punishment.

  • Jer 6:9
    74%

    9This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Glean thoroughly the remnant of Israel as a vine; pass your hand over the branches like a grape gatherer.

  • Job 24:6
    71%

    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    21When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

  • Ezek 38:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.

    13Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish with all their young lions will say to you: ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you gathered your hordes to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and possessions, to make off with great plunder?’

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    70%

    38You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

  • Isa 18:5
    70%

    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Isa 17:6
    70%

    6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that is beaten: two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • Amos 9:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes the one sowing seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.

    14I will restore My people Israel from captivity. They will rebuild desolate cities and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine. They will make gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Deut 28:51
    70%

    51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

  • Gen 32:8
    70%

    8Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, along with the flocks, herds, and camels, into two camps.

  • Lev 19:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

  • Zeph 1:13
    69%

    13Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Deut 23:24
    69%

    24Whatever comes out of your lips, you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

  • Jer 5:17
    69%

    17They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Isa 24:13
    69%

    13So it will be in the midst of the earth among the nations, like the shaking of an olive tree, as gleanings after the grape harvest is over.

  • Gen 31:39
    69%

    39I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

  • Isa 49:17
    69%

    17Your children hurry back, and those who laid you waste and devastated you will depart from you.

  • Isa 49:19
    69%

    19Your ruins, desolate places, and devastated land will now be too small for your inhabitants, and those who devoured you will be far away.

  • Jer 48:32
    69%

    32I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah, more than for Jazer. Your branches spread to the sea, reaching as far as Jazer. The destroyer has fallen upon your summer fruit and your grape harvest.

  • Jer 49:20
    69%

    20Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that he has planned against Edom, and his purposes that he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; he will make their pasture desolate because of them.

  • Jer 49:29
    68%

    29They will take their tents and flocks, their curtains and all their goods, and carry away their camels for themselves. They will call out against them, 'Terror on every side!'

  • Ps 79:7
    68%

    7For they have devoured Jacob and ruined his dwelling place.

  • Isa 17:14
    68%

    14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

  • Joel 2:9
    68%

    9They rush into the city, they run upon the walls. They climb into houses and enter through the windows like a thief.

  • Obad 1:18-19
    2 verses
    68%

    18The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble. They will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

    19People from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

  • Isa 42:24
    68%

    24Who handed Jacob over to be plundered, and Israel to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They refused to walk in His ways or obey His law.

  • Nah 2:2
    68%

    2The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength!

  • Job 24:2
    68%

    2People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

  • Exod 22:5
    68%

    5If a fire breaks out and catches on thorn bushes so that a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field is destroyed, the one who started the fire must make full compensation.

  • Isa 21:14
    68%

    14Bring water to the thirsty, you inhabitants of the land of Tema; bring bread for the fugitives.

  • Lev 26:5
    68%

    5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

  • Hab 2:7
    68%

    7Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will become their plunder.

  • Job 24:11
    67%

    11They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • Nah 1:10
    67%

    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • Gen 34:29
    67%

    29They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder.

  • Num 24:19
    67%

    19A ruler will come out of Jacob and will destroy the survivors of the city.