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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