Jeremiah 49:9
Good News Translation
When people pick grapes, they leave a few on the vines, and when robbers come at night, they take only what they want.

New Revised Standard Version
If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, even they would pillage only what they wanted.

Contemporary English Version
People who harvest grapes leave some for the poor. Thieves who break in at night take only what they want.

New American Bible
If vintagers came upon you, they would leave no gleanings; If thieves by night, they would destroy as they pleased.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.

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If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.

grape-gatherers

Isaiah 17:6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.

Obadiah 1:5,6 Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
The Judgment on Edom
8Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye inhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation. 9If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.10But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:9
When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain.

Jeremiah 6:9
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grapegatherer into the basket.

Obadiah 1:5
Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:8
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