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<p class="indent1"> when a ram’s horn sounds, <p class="indent2"> you will hear it. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD has told me: <p class="indent1stline">“I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, <p class="indent2"> like shimmering heat in the sunshine, <p class="indent2"> like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone <p class="indent2"> and the flower becomes a ripening grape, <p class="indent1"> He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife <p class="indent2"> and remove and discard the branches. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, <p class="indent2"> and to the beasts of the land. <p class="indent1"> The birds will feed on them in summer, <p class="indent2"> and all the wild animals in winter. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—<p class="indent1"> from a people tall and smooth-skinned, <p class="indent2"> from a people widely feared, <p class="indent1"> from a powerful nation of strange speech, <p class="indent2"> whose land is divided by rivers—<p class="reg"> to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>of many locusts</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, the upper Nile region<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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