⁴ 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.”
⁵ 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)
6 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.