Isaiah 18:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ Everyone on this earth,
    listen with care!
A signal will be given
on the mountains,
    and you will hear a trumpet.
⁴ The Lord said to me,
“I will calmly look down
    from my home above—
as calmly as the sun at noon
or clouds in the heat
    of harvest season.”

⁵ Before the blossoms
    can turn into grapes,
God will cut off the sprouts
    and hack off the branches.