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40 Even if your olive trees grow everywhere in your country, the olives will fall off before they are ready, and there won't be enough olive oil for combing your hair.[a]

41 Even your children will be taken as prisoners of war.

42 Locusts[b] will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. 28.40 olive oil … hair: Olive oil was used for combing the hair.
  2. 28.42 Locusts: See the note at 28.38.

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