Isaiah 18:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Pay attention, all you people of the world!
    Listen, all you who live on earth!
Banners will be lifted up on the mountains.
    And you will see them.
Trumpets will be blown.
    And you will hear them.
⁴ The Lord says to me,
    “I will look down from heaven, where I live.
I will be as quiet as summer heat in the sunshine.
    I will be as quiet as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
⁵ A farmer cuts off new growth with pruning knives.
    He cuts down spreading branches and takes them away.
He does it before the grapes are harvested.
    That’s when the blooms are gone and the grapes are ripe.
In the same way, the Lord will cut off the nations
    that are gathered against his people.