Isaiah 18:5

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 pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.

For afore {H6440} the harvest {H7105}, when the bud {H6525} is perfect {H8552}, and the sour grape {H1155} is ripening {H1580} in the flower {H5328}, he shall both cut off {H3772} the sprigs {H2150} with pruning hooks {H4211}, and take away {H5493} and cut down {H8456} the branches {H5189}.

For before the harvest, when the flowering is over, and the bud becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the branches with pruning-knives, lop off the twigs and take them away.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 17:10 (4 votes)

    Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

  • Isaiah 17:11 (4 votes)

    In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • Song Of Solomon 2:13 (3 votes)

    The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song Of Solomon 2:15 (2 votes)

    Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.

  • Ezekiel 17:6 (2 votes)

    And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

  • Ezekiel 17:10 (2 votes)

    Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.