Isaiah 17:4-6

The Voice

⁴ Eternal One: Israel will be humbled then too;
        our cousins, the children of Jacob, will lose their luster, their wealth and excess.
⁵     The land will resemble a field stripped until it is nearly bare,
        like when the harvest has come and gone,
        like the meager grain gleaned in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶     But some gleanings will remain
        like when olive trees are beaten,
    Where two or three olives remain at the top of a tree
        and four or five hold on tight to its fruitful branches.