Isaiah 17:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Only gleanings shall be left in it, as when an olive tree has been beaten— Two or three olives at the very top, four or five on its most fruitful branches— oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:18

But I will spare seven thousand in Israel—every knee that has not bent to Baal, every mouth that has not kissed him.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a small remnant, We would have become as Sodom, would have resembled Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:22

Though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed, as overflowing justice demands.

Isaiah 24:13

For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, As when an olive tree has been beaten, as with a gleaning when the vintage is done.

Isaiah 27:12

On that day, The Lord shall beat out grain from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you shall be gleaned one by one, children of Israel.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole earth shall be waste, but I will not wholly destroy it.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will no longer hide my face from them once I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel—oracle of the Lord God.

Obadiah 1:5

If thieves came to you, robbers by night —how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal merely till they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! I am like the one who gathers summer fruit, when the vines have been gleaned; There is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Romans 11:26

and thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come out of Zion, he will turn away godlessness from Jacob;

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

Judges 8:2

But he answered them, “What have I done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?