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13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
    among the nations,
(A)as when an olive tree is beaten,
    as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

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(A)If grape-gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave (B)gleanings?
(C)If thieves came by night,
    would they not destroy only enough for themselves?

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If (A)thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If (B)grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?

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Wait for the God of Salvation

Woe is me! For I have become
    (A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
    as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
    no (B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.

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