Isaiah 17:6

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Summary

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.

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Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah.

For if my people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall turn back among them: a consumption decided overflowing justice.

For thus it shall be in the midst of the land in the midst of the peoples, as the beating of the olive, as the gleanings if the vintage was finished.

And Jehovah scattered you among the peoples, and ye remained men of number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you there.

And he will say to them, What now did I according to you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim good above the vintage of Abi-Ezer?

And I left in Israel seven thousand, all the knees which bowed not to Baal, and every mouth which kissed him not

And ye mountains of Israel, ye shall give your branch, and ye shall bear your fruit to my people Israel; for they drew near to come.

Speak to them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold I take the tree of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his company, and I gave them upon him with the tree of Judah, and ye made them for one tree, and they were one in my hand.

And I will no more bide my face from them, for I poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

If thieves came to thee, if those laying waste by night, (how thou wert destroyed!) will not they steal their sufficiency? If the grape gatherers came to thee will they not leave gleanings?

Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.

And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal.