They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and bno one will make them afraid.
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
That the glory of Jacob will1 wane,
And athe fatness of his flesh grow lean.
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.
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Isaiah 17:4
The glory of Jacob - " Jacob" is used here to denote the kingdom of Israel, or Samaria. The word ' glory' here denotes dignity, power; that on which they relied, and of which they boasted.
Shall be made thin - Shall be diminished, as a body wastes away by disease, and becomes feeble. The prophet sets forth the calamities of Ephraim by two figures; the first is that of a "body" that becomes emaciated by sickness, the other that of the harvest when all the fruits are gathered except a few in the upper branches Isaiah 17:5-6.
And the fatness his flesh shall wax lean - He shall become feeble, as a man does by wasting sickness. Chaldee, ' The riches of his glory shall be removed.'
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 17:4:
Psalms 46:4
Isaiah 7:1
Isaiah 10:9
Isaiah 18:2
Isaiah 18:2
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