Isaiah 18:4-6

New Century Version

⁴ The Lord said to me,
    “I will quietly watch from where I live,
like heat in the sunshine,
    like the 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 enemy will cut the plants with knives;
    he will cut down the vines and take them away.
⁶ They will be left for the birds of the mountains
    and for the wild animals.
Birds will feed on them all summer,
    and wild animals will eat them that winter.”