The gleaning metaphor: 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vineyard; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes."' This verse employs gleaning imagery: after harvest, gleaners pass through the fields gathering what remains. The instruction to 'glean the remnant...thoroughly' and 'pass your hand over the branches again' suggests systematic devastation: nothing will be left ungathered, no remnant will escape the destruction. The emphasis on thoroughness indicates that judgment will be comprehensive. Theologically, this verse uses agricultural imagery to convey complete devastation: the land will be stripped bare of its people, like grapes gathered from a vineyard.

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