“ripeness” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word ripeness appears 2 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 2 matching verses are shown below.
- Isaias 18:5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.
- Isaias 28:4 And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.