Isaiah 18:4-5

⁴For this is what the Lord has told me:

“I will quietly look from My dwelling place

Like dazzling heat in the sunshine,

Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

5For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms

And the flower becomes a ripening grape,

He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,

And remove and tear away the spreading branches.