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Isaiah 17:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6Yet 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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Role in This Section
The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah turns or qualifies the movement with “Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three…” at Isaiah 17:6 inside “A Few Gleanings Remain as Makers Are Forgotten.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 17:6–11
Read Isaiah 17:6 with 17:6–11. By itself, “Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Sparse olives picture survivors; attention turns from handmade altars to the Holy One, yet forgotten refuge and imported plantings yield grief.
Why It Needs Context
The verse is a premise, action, image, response, or transition within Isaiah 17:6–11, not an independent maxim. The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah turns or qualifies the movement with “Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three…” at Isaiah 17:6 inside “A Few Gleanings Remain as Makers Are Forgotten.”
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 17:6–11 — A Few Gleanings Remain as Makers Are ForgottenSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 17:6–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 17:6–11 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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