Isaiah 24:14

"For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done."

Key Reflection

In Isaiah 24:14, the prophet describes a time of widespread judgment and upheaval that will affect the entire earth and its inhabitants, much like the shaking of an olive tree which causes olives to fall to the ground in abundance. This imagery would have resonated with the original audience, as it vividly depicted the complete devastation of a harvest, leaving no olives left behind, mirroring the total destruction of societies under divine judgment.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They shall lift up their voice -They who are left in the land; or who are not carried away to Babylon. ‘To lift up the voice’ in the Scriptures may denote either grief or joy; compareGenesis 21:6;1 Samuel 24:16;Judges 2:4;Ruth 1:9, ..., where to lift up the voice is conected with weeping; andEzekiel 21:22;Psalms 93:3;Isaiah 40:29;Isaiah 42:11, etc., where it is connected with exultation and joy. The latter is evidently the idea here, that the few who would escape from captivity by fleeing to neighboring countries, would lift up their voice with exultation that they had escaped.

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