Isaiah 18:5 References

5 For abefore the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove and cut away the spreading branches.

a Isaiah 17:10, Isaiah 17:11, Ezekiel 17:6-10


Isaiah 17

10 For ayou have forgotten the bGod of your salvation And have not remembered the crock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Isaiah 17

11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the amorning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will bbe a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Ezekiel 17

6 "Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.
7 "But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was aplanted, that he might water it.
8 "It was planted in good soil beside abundant waters, that it might yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine."'
9 "Say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers--so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.
10 "Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not acompletely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it--wither on the beds where it grew?"'"