Isaiah 17:6

Yet a remnant of gleanings shall be left in it, 1 as the beating of a zayit (olive tree), 1 two or three olives in the rosh of the uppermost olive branch, 1 four or five in the poriyyah (fruitful) olive branches thereof, 1 saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And it shall be as when the katzir (reaper, harvester) gathereth the standing grain, 1 and reapeth the heads of grain with his zero'a; 1 and it shall be as when one gleans heads of grain 1 in the Emek Repha'im. 1

7At that day shall ha'adam look to Oseihu (his Maker), and his eyes shall have respect to Kadosh Yisroel.

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Cross References

Judges 8:2And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephrayim tov (better) than the vintage of Avi'ezer?

Isaiah 1:9Except Hashem Tzva'os 1 had left unto us a very small remnant, 1 we should have been as Sodom, 1 and we should have been like unto Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Isaiah 24:13When thus it shall be in the midst of HaAretz 1 among the nations, there shall be as the shaking of a zayit (olive tree), 1 and as the olelot (gleanings) when the grape harvest is done. 1

Jeremiah 4:27For thus hath Hashem said, A wasteland shall be kol HaAretz; yet I will not make a complete end of it. 1

Ezekiel 37:19Say unto them, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hinei, I will take the Etz Yosef, which is in the Yad Ephrayim, and the Shivtei Yisroel his chaverim, and will put them with him, even with the Etz Yehudah, and make them Etz Echad, and they shall be Echad in Mine Yad.

Obadiah 1:5If ganavim (thieves) came to thee, if shodedei lailah (robbers by night) — 1 oh how art thou cut off! 1 — would they not have stolen only till they had enough? 1 If the grape gatherers came to thee, 1 would they not leave some grapes? 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:2-6

The Doom of Syria and Israel. ( b. c. 712.) 1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob… Read the whole commentary →

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