Head and tail, branch and rush... — The “branch” is strictly that of the palm-tree, which in its stately height answered to the nobles of the land, while the “rush,” the emblem of a real or affected lowliness (Isaiah 58:5) represented the “mean man” of Isaiah 2:9. The same proverbial formula meets us in Isaiah 19:15.
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Isaiah 9:14
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.