Isaiah 18:5

For before katzir (harvest), when the bud is perfect, 1 and the boser (sour grape, ripening grape) is ripening in the flower, 1 He shall both cut off the zalzallim (shoots) with pruning hooks, 1 and take away and cut down the netishot (tendrils, branches). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruninghooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

In Context

4For so Hashem said unto me, 1 I will remain quiet in My rest, 1 and I will consider from My dwelling place like shimmering chom (heat) in the ohr, 1 and like a cloud of tal (dew) in the chom katzir (heat of harvest). 1

6They shall be left together 1 unto the birds of prey of the harim, 1 and to the behemat ha'aretz; 1 and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, 1 and all the behemat ha'aretz shall winter upon them. 1

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:15Catch the shu'alim (foxes), 1 the shu'alim ketanim (little foxes), 1 that spoil the kramim (vines); 1 for krameinu (our [blooming] vines) have tender grapes. 1

Isaiah 17:10Because thou hast forgotten the G-d of thy salvation, 1 and hast not been mindful of the Tzur of thy Ma'oz; 1 therefore shalt thou plant delightful plants, 1 and shalt set them with zemorat zar (foreign vines). 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 18:2-7

Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 712.) 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when… Read the whole commentary →

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