⁵ For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
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.

¹¹ When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For ^(A)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will ^(B)not have mercy on them,
And ^(C)He who formed them will show them no favor.

⁴ He cropped off its topmost young twig
And carried it to a land of trade;
He set it in a city of merchants.