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For the Lord has said to me,
“I will look on quietly from my dwelling place,
like the shimmering heat of the sun,
like the rising mist at harvest time.”
For before the harvest,
after the blossom has fallen
and the flower has turned into ripening grapes,
the Lord will cut off the new shoots with pruning hooks,
and he will cut down and remove the longer vines.
They will all be left for the scavenging birds in the mountains
and for the wild animals in the countryside.
The scavenging birds will feed on them all summer,
and wild animals will feed on them all winter.

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This is what the Lord says to me:
    “I will remain quiet(A) and will look on from my dwelling place,(B)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,(C)
    like a cloud of dew(D) 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(E) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(F)
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(G)
    and to the wild animals;(H)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

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