Yesaya 18:5

18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted,

and the ripening fruit appears, ¹ 

he will cut off the unproductive shoots ²  with pruning knives;

he will prune the tendrils. ³ 

Yesaya 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ⁴  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ⁵ 

For these people lack understanding, ⁶ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

[18:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and the unripe, ripening fruit is maturing.”

[18:5]  ² tn On the meaning of זַלְזַל (zalzal, “shoot [of the vine] without fruit buds”) see HALOT 272 s.v. *זַלְזַל.

[18:5]  ³ tn Heb “the tendrils he will remove, he will cut off.”

[27:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[27:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

[27:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”