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All you inhabitants of the world,
    and dwellers on the earth:
When he lifts up a banner on the mountains,
    you will see it;
and when he blows a trumpet,
    you will hear it.
For so the Lord said to me:
    I will look from My dwelling place quietly,
like dazzling heat in the sunshine,
    like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
    and the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
then He shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
    and take away and cut down the branches.

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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.
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.”
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)

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