Complacent Women Warned of Disaster

(A)Rise up, you women (B)who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
    the fruit harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you women (C)who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
(D)strip, and make yourselves bare,
    (E)and tie sackcloth around your waist.

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Against the Carefree Women

Women who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice!
    Carefree daughters, listen to my word!

10 In a year[a] you will tremble, carefree ones,

for the vintage will come to an end;
    the harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you who are at ease;
    tremble, carefree ones;
strip, and strip yourself,
    and gird yourself on your loins,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:10 Literally “In days upon a year”
  2. Isaiah 32:11 Although the carefree and at ease addressees in this verse are feminine plural (“you women”), the commands are masculine singular in form

The Women of Jerusalem

You women(A) who are so complacent,
    rise up and listen(B) to me;
you daughters who feel secure,(C)
    hear what I have to say!
10 In little more than a year(D)
    you who feel secure will tremble;
the grape harvest will fail,(E)
    and the harvest of fruit will not come.
11 Tremble,(F) you complacent women;
    shudder, you daughters who feel secure!(G)
Strip off your fine clothes(H)
    and wrap yourselves in rags.(I)

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