Isaías 18:5

5 Pues antes de la cosecha, tan pronto como el botón se abra y la flor se convierta en uva madura, El cortará los pámpanos con podaderas y podará y quitará los sarmientos.

Isaías 18:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 18:5

For afore the harvest
Or vintage: the above metaphor is carried on; before the designs and schemes of the people above described are ripe for execution, who promised themselves a large harvest of their neighbours: when the bud is perfect;
when the bud of the vine is become a perfect grape, though unripe; when the scheme was fully laid, and with perfect and consummate wisdom as imagined, though not brought into execution: and the sour grape is ripening in the flower;
things go on and promise well, as if the issue would be according to expectation, and there would be a good vintage. The sour grape may denote the temper and disposition of the above people against their enemies, their ill nature, and enmity to them; or the sins and transgressions, for which the judgment denounced came upon them: he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take
away [and] cut down the branches;
as the vinedresser; or rather as one that has no good will to the vine, cuts it with pruning hooks, not to make it better, but worse, and cuts off, not the dead withered and useless parts of it, but the sprigs that have buds and flowers, or unripe grapes, upon them, and even whole branches that have clusters on them, and takes them and casts them away, to be trodden under foot, or cast into the fire; so the Lord, or the king of Assyria, the instrument in the hand of God, should cut off the Ethiopians, or the Egyptians, with the sword, both small and great, when their enterprise should fail, and their promised success: or this is to be understood of the destruction of Sennacherib's army by the angel, when he was full of expectation of taking Jerusalem, and plundering that rich city. Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it of the destruction of the armies of Gog and Magog. The Targum is,

``and he shall kill the princes of the people with the sword, and their mighty ones he shall remove and cause to pass over.''

Isaías 18:5 In-Context

3 Todos vosotros, habitantes del mundo y moradores de la tierra, tan pronto como se alce la bandera sobre los montes, la veréis, y tan pronto como la trompeta sea tocada, la oiréis.

4 Porque así me ha dicho el SEÑOR: Me estaré quieto y miraré desde mi morada, como calor resplandeciente al sol, como nube de rocío en el calor de la cosecha.

5 Pues antes de la cosecha, tan pronto como el botón se abra y la flor se convierta en uva madura, El cortará los pámpanos con podaderas y podará y quitará los sarmientos.

6 Juntos serán dejados para las aves de rapiña de los montes, y para las bestias de la tierra; pasarán allí el verano las aves de rapiña, y todas las bestias de la tierra allí invernarán.

7 En aquel tiempo será traído un obsequio al SEÑOR de los ejércitos de parte de un pueblo de alta estatura y de piel brillante, de un pueblo temido por todas partes, de una nación poderosa y opresora, cuya tierra surcan los ríos, al lugar del nombre del SEÑOR de los ejércitos, el monte Sion.