Isaiah 18:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ All you ·people [inhabitants] of the world, look!
    Everyone who lives in the world, look!
You will see a ·banner [standard; signal flag] raised on a mountain.
    You will hear a trumpet sound.
⁴ The Lord said to me,
    “I will quietly watch from ·where I live [my dwelling place],
like ·heat in the sunshine [^Lglowing heat upon the light],
    like ·the dew [^La cloud of dew] in the heat of harvest time.”
⁵ The time will come, after the flowers have bloomed and before the harvest,
    when ·new grapes will be budding and growing [the flower becomes a ripening grape].
·The enemy [or The Lord; ^LHe] will cut the plants with pruning knives;
    he will cut down the ·vines [branches; tendrils] and take them away.