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.
KJV
Ante messem enim totus effloruit, et immatura perfectio germinabit ; et præcidentur ramusculi ejus falcibus, et quæ derelicta fuerint abscindentur et excutientur.
Vulgate
πρὸ τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅταν συντελεσθῇ ἄνθος, καὶ ὄμφαξ ἀνθήσει ἄνθος ὀμφακίζουσα· καὶ ἀφελεῖ τὰ βοτρύδια τὰ μικρὰ τοῖς δρεπάνοις, καὶ τὰς κληματίδας ἀφελεῖ καὶ ἀποκόψει,
LXX
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.
ASV
כִּֽי לִ/פְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּ/תָם פֶּ֔רַח וּ/בֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְ/כָרַ֤ת הַ/זַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּ/מַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְ/אֶת הַ/נְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 17:10 — 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:
- Isa 17:11 — 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.
- Ps 80:12 — Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?