Isaiah 17:5 “as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with hi…”

Isaiah 17:5

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

World English Bible

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

American Standard Version

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

Geneva Bible 1599

And it shalbe as when the haruest man gathereth the corne, and reapeth the eares with his arme, and he shall be as he that gathereth the eares in the valley of Rephaim.

Darby Translation

And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

Young's Literal Translation

And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,

Bible in Basic English

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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Cross references

“as when”

Matthew 13:30 Jeremiah 51:33 Joel 3:13 Revelation 14:15–20 Matthew 13:39–42 Jeremiah 9:22

Matthew 13:30 · BSB

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Jeremiah 51:33 · BSB

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

Joel 3:13 · BSB

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

Revelation 14:15–20 · BSB

Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

Matthew 13:39–42 · BSB

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

Jeremiah 9:22 · BSB

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

“the valley”

Joshua 15:8 Joshua 18:16

Joshua 15:8 · BSB

From there the border went up the Valley of Ben-hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end o…

Joshua 18:16 · BSB

Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Ben-hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to En-r…

“the valley of the giants”

2 Samuel 5:18 2 Samuel 5:22

2 Samuel 5:18 · BSB

Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 5:22 · BSB

Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

Also

Isaiah 17:11

Isaiah 17:11 · BSB

though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,

6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Read Isaiah 17