Isaiah 18:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 All ye the inhabitants of the world, and dwellers in the earth, shall see when [a]he setteth up a sign in the mountains, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall hear.
4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will [b]rest and behold in my tabernacle, as [c]the heat drying up the rain, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the flour is finished, and the fruit is ripening in the flour, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away, and cut off the boughs:
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- Isaiah 18:3 When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians.
- Isaiah 18:4 I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.
- Isaiah 18:4 Which two seasons are most profitable for the ripening of fruits, whereby he meaneth, that he will seem to favor them, and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off.
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