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Isaiah 17:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. "

Isaiah 17:5

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3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies.

4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel.

7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

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"They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the LORD, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all."

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Isaiah 17:1

"The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap."

Isaiah 17:2

"The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid."

Isaiah 17:3

"The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies."

Isaiah 17:4

"“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean."

Isaiah 17:6

"Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel."

Isaiah 17:7

"In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel."

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