Isaiah 18:5

For before harvest, when the bud is perfect, And, the blossom, becometh a ripening grape, Then will one cut down the twigs with pruning-hooks, And the tendrils, will he remove [and] cast down:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, thus, said Yahweh unto me,—I must be quiet I must look on in my fixed place of abode,—Like a bright heat on the light, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

6They shall be left together. To the ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth,—Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:15[BOTH] Take ye for us, the foxes, the little foxes that are spoiling the vines,—and, our vines, are all blossom!

Isaiah 17:10Because thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, And thy Rock of refuge, thou didst not remember, For this cause, shalt thou plant very pleasant plants, And, the slip of a stranger, shalt thou set:

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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