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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks,
    and the spreading branches he will hew away.
They shall all be left
    to the birds of prey of the mountains
    and to the animals of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
    and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[a] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Isaiah 18:7 Q Ms Gk Vg: MT of

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