For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery;(as I wrote afore in few words,