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Isaiah 17:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Only gleanings will be left in Israel, as if an olive tree had been beaten – two or three olives at the very top of the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches. This is the declaration of the  Lord, the God of Israel.

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For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.


The Lord will scatter you among the peoples,  and you will be reduced to a few survivors  among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.


But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;


If thieves came to you, if marauders by night – how ravaged you would be! – wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?


So he said to them, ‘What have I done now compared to you? Is not the gleaning  of Ephraim better than the grape harvest  of Abiezer?


And in this way all  Israel will be saved, as it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.


How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest   – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.


I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.


On that day the Lord will thresh corn from the River Euphrates as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.


Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.


If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.


But I will leave seven thousand in Israel   #– #every knee that has not bowed to Baal  and every mouth that has not kissed him.’


For this is what the Lord says: ‘The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.





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