But I will leave seven thousand in Israel #– #every knee that has not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.’
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet gleanings [of grapes] shall be left in it [the land of Israel], as after the beating of an olive tree [with a stick], two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of the fruitful tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Only remaining bits are left, like an olive tree that has been shaken: two or three olives on the highest branch; four or five on a fruitful twig, says the LORD God of Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version And what is left behind in it will be like one cluster of grapes, or like a shaken olive tree with two or three olives at the top of a branch, or like four or five olives at the top of a tree, says the Lord God of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel. |
But I will leave seven thousand in Israel #– #every knee that has not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.’
If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
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.
For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
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.
For this is what the Lord says: ‘The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.
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.
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?
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.
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.
But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
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.
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?