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In the same way, only a few people will be left alive.
    It will be as when workers knock olives off the trees.
Only two or three olives are left on the highest branches.
    Four or five at most are left on the limbs that produce fruit,”
    announces the Lord, the God of Israel.

In days to come, people will look to their Maker for help.
    They will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
They won’t trust in the altars
    they made with their own hands.
They won’t pay any attention to the poles they used
    to worship the female god named Asherah.
And they won’t depend on the incense altars
    they made with their own fingers.

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Yet some gleanings will remain,(A)
    as when an olive tree is beaten,(B)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
    four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

In that day(C) people will look(D) to their Maker(E)
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One(F) of Israel.
They will not look to the altars,(G)
    the work of their hands,(H)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](I)
    and the incense altars their fingers(J) have made.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah