⁵ For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off^(A) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.^(B)
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey^(C)
    and to the wild animals;^(D)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,^(F)
    from a people feared^(G) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers^(H)—