Isaiah 17:4-8

Expanded Bible

⁴ “·At that time [^LIn that day] ·Israel’s wealth [^LJacob’s glory] will ·all be gone [or fade; wane].
    ·Israel will be like a body wasting away from sickness [^LThe fatness of his flesh will grow lean].
⁵ That time will be like the grain harvest in the Valley of Rephaim.
    The workers cut the wheat.
    Then they cut the heads of grain from the plants
    and collect the grain.
⁶ That time will also be like ·the olive harvest [when an olive tree is beaten],
    when ·a few olives [^Lgleanings] are left [24:13].
Two or three olives are left in the top branches.
    Four or five olives are left on full branches,” says the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁷ ·At that time [^LIn that day] people will look to their Maker;
    their eyes will ·see [or ^Llook toward] the Holy One of Israel [1:4].
⁸ They will not trust the altars ·they have made [^Lthe work of their hands],
    nor will they trust what their ·hands [^Lfingers] have made,
not even the ·Asherah idols [^LAsherahs; ^Csacred trees or poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah] and ·altars [incense altars].