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# General Information:
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This continues to compare the nation of Israel with a field after it is harvested ([Isaiah 17:4-5](./04.md)).
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# Gleanings will be left
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The word "Gleanings" here represents the people who will still live in Israel. Alternate translation: "But there will be a few people left in Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# as when the olive tree is shaken
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People harvested olive trees by shaking them so that the olives would fall out. Alternate translation: "like the few olives that remain on the olive trees after people harvest them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# four or five
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The word "olives" is understood from the phrase before this. Alternate translation: "four or five olives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])
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# this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel
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Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. Alternate translation: "this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh, the God of Israel, have declared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-123person]])
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