Text -- Isaiah 18:5 (NET)

18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 18:5

¹ tn Heb “and the unripe, ripening fruit is maturing.”

² tn On the meaning of זַלְזַל (zalzal, “shoot [of the vine] without fruit buds”) see HALOT 272 s.v. *זַלְזַל.

³ tn Heb “the tendrils he will remove, he will cut off.”