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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

are no olives on the olive trees, and no grain grows in the fields, yet I will be joyful because of the Lord. Even if there are no sheep in the sheep pens and no cattle in the cattle stalls, yet I will be glad because God protects me. Once translators have decided how to handle the overall structure of the sentence, they can begin to examine the details. The verse is speaking of complete economic disaster, but it does so in the specific terms of the economy of Palestine. This was based on patterns
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