Add parallel Print Page Options

For before the harvest, as soon as blossoming is over
and flower becomes ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
He will cut back and remove the twigs.
They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
    and the beasts of the land.
The birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the land will winter upon them.

At that time tribute will be brought to Adonai-Tzva’ot
from a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared far and wide,
a nation powerful and oppressive,
whose land the rivers divide—
to the place of the Name of Adonai-Tzva’ot—Mount Zion!

Read full chapter

For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(A) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(B)
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(C)
    and to the wild animals;(D)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

At that time gifts(E) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(F)
    from a people feared(G) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers(H)

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(I)

Read full chapter