27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples,(A) and you will be reduced to a few survivors[a] among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

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  1. 4:27 Lit be left few in number

27 The Lord will scatter(A) you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive(B) among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

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13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.(A)

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13 So will it be on the earth
    and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,(A)
    or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.(B)

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12 On that day(A)
the Lord will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the Wadi of Egypt,(B)
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.

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12 In that day the Lord will thresh(A) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(B) and you, Israel, will be gathered(C) up one by one.

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If thieves came to you,(A)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?(B)

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“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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19 Then you will say,(A) “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

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19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

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