Discovery BoxIsaiah 5:6 
Context5:6 I will make it a wasteland;
no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, 1
and thorns and briers will grow there.
I will order the clouds
not to drop any rain on it.
Isaiah 18:5
Context18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted,
and the ripening fruit appears, 2
he will cut off the unproductive shoots 3 with pruning knives;
he will prune the tendrils. 4
1 tn Heb “it will not be pruned or hoed” (so NASB); ASV and NRSV both similar.
2 tn Heb “and the unripe, ripening fruit is maturing.”
3 tn On the meaning of זַלְזַל (zalzal, “shoot [of the vine] without fruit buds”) see HALOT 272 s.v. *זַלְזַל.
4 tn Heb “the tendrils he will remove, he will cut off.”
