KJV 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 pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath one cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 18
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 he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
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כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforלִפְנֵ֤יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeקָצִיר֙H7105 · qa.tsirharvestכְּתָם־H8552 · ta.mamto finishפֶּ֔רַחH6525 · pe.rachflowerוּבֹ֥סֶרH1155 · bo.serunripe grapeגֹּמֵ֖לH1580 · ga.malto weanיִֽהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beנִצָּ֑הH5328 · nits.tsahflowerוְכָרַ֤תH3772 · ka.ratto cut: cutהַזַּלְזַלִּים֙H2150 · zal.zaltendrilבַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹתH4211 · maz.me.rahprunerוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹתH5189 · ne.ti.shahtendrilהֵסִ֥ירH5493 · surto turn aside: removeהֵתַֽז׃H8456 · ta.zazto strike away
Cross-references
Isaiah 17:10-11Because 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:Song of Solomon 2:13The 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.Ezekiel 17:6-10And 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.Song of Solomon 2:15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.
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