aWhen he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
“I will take My rest,
And I will1 look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
1From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 18:5
For—rather, "But."
perfect—perfected. When the enemy's plans are on the verge of completion.
sour grape . . . flower—rather, "when the flower shall become the ripening grape" [MAURER].
sprigs—the shoots with the grapes on them. God will not only disconcert their present plans, but prevent them forming any future ones. HORSLEY takes the "harvest" and vintage here as referring to purifying judgments which cause the excision of the ungodly from the earth, and the placing of the faithful in a state of peace on the earth: not the last judgment (John 15:2; Revelation 14:15-20).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 18:5:
Isaiah 17:14
Isaiah 18:1
Isaiah 18:4
Isaiah 19:25
Isaiah 23:18
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