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If you don't mind, I would like to read some scripture.

How about that?

I want to read some scripture to you.

Because I'd never seen this before.

It's in the book of Habakkuk. How do you say it?

I think it's a back-in.

A back-kic.

I'm not sure, yeah.

He's a prophet.

I want, because this matters.

They matter so much.

And you might not have heard this too.

Maybe you have.

I don't know. But here's what it says. It says, even though the fig trees have no blossoms and there are no grapes on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields lie empty and barren.

Even though the flocks die in the fields and the cattle barns are empty, I will rejoice in the Lord. I'll be joyful in the

God of my salvation. The Lord is my strength. He makes me as sure-footed as a deer, able to tread upon

the heights. And I was thinking, so what would be the modern American equivalent of that?

Because if you don't, if you understand like agrarian cultures or ancient cultures,

he's basically saying everything's gone. Even though everything's gone. So I was thinking,

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