Isaiah 17:6

⁴ “In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,

⁵ as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

⁷ In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

⁸ They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
KJV: Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
WEB: Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel.
ASV: Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
DARBY: And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
BLB: and there will be left over in it gleanings, like the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries at the top of the bough, four [or] five bearing fruit in its branches.” A declaration of YHWH God of Israel.

ÅB: Bare en etterhøst skal bli tilovers der, som når de slår ned oliven; to, tre bær øverst i toppen, fire, fem på greinene av frukttreet, sier Herren, Israels Gud.
OTB: Likevel skal det bli igjen etterhøst, som når et oliventre blir ristet, og det blir igjen to eller tre oliven på de øverste grenene, fire eller fem på de fruktbare grenene," erklærer Herren, Israels Gud.
B1930: Bare en efterhøst skal bli tilovers der, som når de slår ned oliven; to, tre bær øverst i toppen, fire, fem på grenene av frukttreet, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 24:13
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
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Deuteronomy 4:27
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
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Obadiah 1:5
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
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Romans 11:4–6
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
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Judges 8:2
But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
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Ezekiel 36:8–15
But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
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Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
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