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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
- 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.