For before the harvest, when the bud is mature, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the twigs with pruning knives, and take away and cut down the branches.
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall cut off the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.