Isaiah 17:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“That time will also be like the olive harvest. People knock olives from the trees, but a few olives are usually left at the top of each tree. Four or five olives are left on some of the top branches. It will be the same for those cities,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Cross References

Isaiah 24:13

At harvest time, people knock olives from the trees. But a few olives are left in the trees. It will be like that in this land and among the nations.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the nations. And only a few of you will be left alive to go to the countries where the Lord will send you.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out about Israel: “There are so many people of Israel, they are like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be saved.

Obadiah 1:5

You really will be ruined! Thieves will come to you. Robbers will come in the night, and they will take all they want. When workers gather grapes in your vineyards, they will leave a few grapes behind.

Judges 8:2

But Gideon answered the men of Ephraim, “I have not done as well as you. You people of Ephraim have a much better harvest than my family, the Abiezers. At harvest time you leave more grapes in the vineyard than my family gathers! Isn’t that true?

Romans 11:26

And that is how all Israel will be saved. The Scriptures say, “The Savior will come from Zion; he will take away all evil from the family of Jacob.

Micah 7:1

I am upset because I am like fruit that has been gathered, like grapes that have already been picked. There are no grapes left to eat. There are none of the early figs that I love.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my Spirit on the family of Israel, and I will never turn away from my people again.” This is what the Lord GOD said.

Isaiah 27:12

At that time the Lord will begin separating his people from others. He will begin at the Euphrates River and will gather his people from there to the River of Egypt. You people of Israel will be gathered together one by one.

Isaiah 10:22

Israel, your people are as many as the sands of the sea, but only a few of them will be left to come back to God. But before that happens, your country will be destroyed. God has announced that he will destroy the land. And then justice will come into the land like a river flowing full.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord All-Powerful had not allowed a few people to live, we would have been destroyed completely like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And that almost happened!

1 Kings 19:18

I still have 7000 people in Israel who have never bowed down to Baal or kissed that idol.”

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: “The whole country will be ruined, but I will not completely destroy the land.