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37 They sow their fields, plant their vineyards,
    and harvest their bumper crops.
38 How he blesses them!
    They raise large families there,
    and their herds of livestock increase.

39 When they decrease in number and become impoverished
    through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

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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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