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37 You can plant fields
and vineyards that produce
    a good harvest.
38 The Lord will bless you
with many children
    and with herds of cattle.

39 Sometimes you may be crushed
    by troubles and sorrows,
until only a few of you
    are left to survive.

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37 They sowed fields and planted vineyards(A)
    that yielded a fruitful harvest;
38 he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,(B)
    and he did not let their herds diminish.(C)

39 Then their numbers decreased,(D) and they were humbled(E)
    by oppression, calamity and sorrow;

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