Isaiah 18:3-5

The Voice

³ All citizens of the world, every last inhabitant of the earth, pay attention!
    When you see a signal raised on the mountains, look!
When the trumpets sound the alarm, listen!
⁴ Because the Eternal told me,

Eternal One: I am in control—calm and serene.
        I am watching quietly from where I dwell
    Just as surely as the heat shimmers in the blazing sun
        and the dewy mists cool the warmth of a harvest day.

⁵ For even before the harvest begins, when the buds blossom
    and the flowers make way for the ripening grapes,
God will cut back their shoots with pruning shears,
    lop off and clear away the spreading branches.