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And gleanings will be left over in it, as when an olive tree is beaten,[a]

two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch,
    four or five on its fruitful branches,”

declares[b] Yahweh, the God of Israel.

On that day, mankind will look to its maker,
    and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel;
it will not look to the altars,
    the work of its hands,
and it will not see what its fingers made
    and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:6 Literally “beating of an olive tree”
  2. Isaiah 17:6 Literally “declaration of”