5. For, before the harvest, when the blossom is goneand the flower becomes a ripening grape,he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6. They will all be left to the mountain birds of preyand to the wild animals;the birds will feed on them all summer,the wild animals all winter.
7. At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almightyfrom a people tall and smooth-skinned,from a people feared far and wide,an aggressive nation of strange speech,whose land is divided by rivers –the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.