Kommentar zu Jeschijahu 18:5

For before the ripening of the harvest of Amalek and of Gog, when he has not yet filled his desire and his hope, that he plans to destroy his brothers.

when the blossom is past i.e., when its blossom is past and the grain is close to becoming ripe in its ears and before the buds of his vine become ripening grapes, ripened to the extent of being בֹּסֶר, i.e., when the grapes become as big as a white bean. This is called בֹּסֶר and also גֵּרוּעַ.

גומל Ripening, Comp. ויגמל And it ripened (Num. 17:23). יהיה נצה Will still be in the flower.

and he shall cut off i.e., the cutter shall cut off the tendrils; these are the branches and the boughs.

And He will cut off. The pronoun refers to God.

with pruning hooks sarpes in O.F. [serpes in Modern French].

הזלזלים The sprigs. The branches which are joined to the root; the word is hap. leg.

and the roots These are the roots of the vines, called ceps in O.F.

הנטישות The large branches, that spread (נטש) widely.

he cut [them] off Heb. הֵתַּז. i.e., to say that He shall slay the officers and the rulers of Esau and of Gog and his armies and his allies.

כרת ═ התז He cut. This verb is often met with in Rabbinical Hebrew.¹⁵Comp. Talmud Babli. Gittin 70a, Synhedrin, 52b. The two verbs in the past follow each other without a conjunction, like חמק עבר Hath gone, passed by (Song 5:6). The meaning of the verse is: The Assyrians will perish before the fruit of their devices will be ripe.