Isa 18:5 | ESV | STEP | For before the harvest , when the blossom is over , and the flower becomes a ripening grape , he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks , and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away .

Isaiah 18:5

5 ^aFor before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.