en_tn_lite_do_not_use/isa/17/06.md

# General Information:

This continues to compare the nation of Israel with a field after it is harvested ([Isaiah 17:4-5](./04.md)).

# Gleanings will be left

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]])

# as when the olive tree is shaken

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]])

# four or five

The word "olives" is understood from the phrase before this. Alternate translation: "four or five olives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])

# this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel

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]])