^{5 Ref} And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

^{6 Ref} But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

^{7 Ref} In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

^{8 Ref} He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

^{9 Ref} In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

^{10 Ref} For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

^{11 Ref} In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.