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Isaiah 17:6

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 6 Only gleanings will be left,
  As when an olive tree is beaten:
  
  Only two or three ripe olives remain on the highest branch,
  Only four or five on its fruit-bearing branches,”+ declares Jehovah the God of Israel.

Isaiah 17:6

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 6 And there must remain in it a gleaning as when there is a beating off of the olive tree: two [or] three ripe olives in the top of the branch; four [or] five on the fruit-bearing boughs thereof,” is the utterance of Jehovah the God of Israel.+

Isaiah 17:6

The Bible in Living English
- 6 and there will be after-pickings left in it like the beatings of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the tip of a treetop, four or five in the recesses of a heavy bearer, quoth Israel’s God Jehovah.

Isaiah 17:6

American Standard Version
- 6 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.

Isaiah 17:6

The Emphasized Bible
- 6 Yet shall there be left therein a gleaning As in the beating of an olive-tree,—Two—three berries in the head of the tree-top,—Four—five among her fruitful boughs, Declareth Yahweh, God of Israel.

Isaiah 17:6

King James Version
- 6 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.