This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest<n id="1" /> that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">There will be some left behind,p> <p class="poetry">like when an olive tree is beaten &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,p> <p class="poetry">four or five on its fruitful branches,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what will happen throughout<n id="1" /> the earth,p> <p class="poetry">among the nations.p> <p class="poetry">It will be like when they beat an olive tree,p> <p class="poetry">and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, once called<n id="1" /> you a thriving olive tree,p> <p class="poetry">one that produced beautiful fruit.p> <p class="poetry">But I will set you<n id="2" /> on fire,p> <p class="poetry">fire that will blaze with a mighty roar.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Then all your branches will be good for nothing.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I destroyed your crops<n id="1" /> with blight and disease.p> <p class="poetry">Locusts kept<n id="2" /> devouring your orchards,<n id="3" /> vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees.p> <p class="poetry">Still you did not come back to me.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">You will plant crops, but will not harvest them;p> <p class="poetry">you will squeeze oil from the olives,<n id="1" /> but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.<n id="3" />p>

The seed is still in the storehouse, isn&#8217;t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Before he could reply I asked again, &#8220;What are these two extensions<n id="1" /> of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?&#8221;

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant &#8211; and you eat your fill,

I gave you a land in<n id="1" /> which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of<n id="2" /> vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.

Elisha<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you.<n id="2" /> This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.<n id="3" />

until I come and take you to a land just like your own &#8211; a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don&#8217;t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will rescue us.&#8221;

and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message<n id="1" /> in all their cities and in Jerusalem:<n id="2" /> &#8220;Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.&#8221;p>

They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things &#8211; wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full<n id="1" /> and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.p>

<p class="poetry">When<n id="1" /> the fig tree does not bud,p> <p class="poetry">and there are no grapes on the vines;p> <p class="poetry">when the olive trees do not produce,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the fields yield no crops;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when the sheep disappear<n id="4" /> from the pen,p> <p class="poetry">and there are no cattle in the stalls,p>