Isaiah 17:4-8

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁴ “When that day comes, the honor of Jacob’s people will fade away,
and they will become skin and bones.
⁵ That time will be like harvesting bundles of grain by the armful.
It will be like gathering grain in the Rephaim Valley.
⁶ Only a few people will survive.
They will be like an olive tree that has been beaten.
Only two or three olives are left
at the top of the highest branch,
four or five olives on the rest of the branches,”
declares the Lord God of Israel.

⁷ When that day comes, they will look to their maker,
and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
⁸ They won’t look to the altars made by their hands
or to the Asherah poles or incense altars
which their fingers molded.