Isaiah 18:3-5

New International Version

³ All you people of the world,^(A)
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner^(B) is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet^(C) sounds,
    you will hear it.
⁴ This is what the Lord says to me:
    “I will remain quiet^(D) and will look on from my dwelling place,^(E)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,^(F)
    like a cloud of dew^(G) in the heat of harvest.”
⁵ For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off^(H) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.^(I)