Isaiah 18:3-5

International Standard Version

³ All you inhabitants of the world,
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
    you’ll see it.
When a trumpet sounds,
    you’ll hear it!

⁴ For this is what the Lord told me:
“I will remain quiet and watch in my dwelling place
    like dazzling heat in sunshine,
        like a cloud of dew in the heat^[a] of harvest.”

⁵ For before the harvest, when the season of^[b] budding is over,
    and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes,^[c]
he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives,
    clearing away the spreading branches
        as he lops them off.