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For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 17. Fail. Lit. “lie,” ( Bible.) or frustrate our expectations. Calmet.—Spem mentita seges. Hor. i. ep. 7.—Fold. Septuagint “food.”
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