Isaiah 32:9-20

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⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.^(A)
10 In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent ones,
for the vintage will fail;
    the fruit harvest will not come.^(B)
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
    shudder, you complacent ones;
strip and make yourselves bare,
    and put sackcloth on your loins.^(C)
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,^[a]
    for the fruitful vine,^(D)
13 for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the jubilant city.^(E)
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
the joy of wild asses,
    a pasture for flocks;^(F)
15 until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
    and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.^(G)

¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
    and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.^(H)
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
    and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.^(I)
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
    in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
¹⁹ The forest will disappear completely,^[b]
    and the city will be utterly laid low.^(J)
20 Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,
    who let the ox and the donkey range freely.^(K)