Isaiah 18:5

Before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower is ripening into a grape, 1 he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. 1

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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

4This is what Yahweh said to me, “I will quietly observe from my home, 1 like the simmering heat in sunshine, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest. 1

6They will be left together for the birds of the mountains and for the animals of the earth. 1 The birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.” 1

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:15Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes 1 that spoil vineyards, 1 for our vineyard is in blossom. 1

Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. 1 So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger, 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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