Jeremiah 49:9
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49:9If grape pickers came to pick your grapes,
would they not leave a few grapes behind?25
If robbers came at night,
would they not pillage only what they needed?26
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- 25 The translation of this verse is generally based on the parallels in Obad 5. There the second line has a ה interrogative in front of it. The question can still be assumed because questions can be asked in Hebrew without a formal marker (cf. §150.a and 519 לֹא 1.a[e] and compare usage in 2 Kgs 5:26).
- 26 The tense and nuance of the verb translated “pillage” are both different than the verb in Obad 5. There the verb is the imperfect of גָּנַב (ganav, “to steal”). Here the verb is the perfect of a verb which means to “ruin” or “spoil.” The English versions and commentaries, however, almost all render the verb here in much the same way as in Obad 5. The nuance must mean they only “ruin, destroy” (by stealing) only as much as they need (Heb “their sufficiency”), and the verb is used as metonymical substitute, effect for cause. The perfect must be some kind of a future perfect; “would they not have destroyed only …” The negative question is carried over by ellipsis from the preceding lines.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?
If thieves came during the night,
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Those who harvest grapes
always leave a few for the poor.
If thieves came at night,
they would not take everything.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
If grape-gatherers come to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves in the night,
they destroy only enough for them.
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KJV 1900King James Version
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
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