Isaiah 18:4-6

Expanded Bible

⁴ The Lord said to me,
    “I will quietly watch from ·where I live [my dwelling place],
like ·heat in the sunshine [^Lglowing heat upon the light],
    like ·the dew [^La cloud of dew] in the heat of harvest time.”
⁵ The time will come, after the flowers have bloomed and before the harvest,
    when ·new grapes will be budding and growing [the flower becomes a ripening grape].
·The enemy [or The Lord; ^LHe] will cut the plants with pruning knives;
    he will cut down the ·vines [branches; tendrils] and take them away.
⁶ They will be left for the ·birds [or birds of prey] of the mountains
    and for the wild animals.
Birds will feed on them all summer,
    and wild animals will eat them that winter.”