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Isaiah 32:9-20
English Standard Version
Isaiah 32:9-20
English Standard Version
Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 (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.
12 (F)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
13 (G)for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
(H)yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
14 For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
(I)a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;
15 until (J)the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and (K)the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
17 (L)And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust[a] forever.
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
19 (M)And it will hail when the forest falls down,
(N)and the city will be utterly laid low.
20 (O)Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 32:17 Or security
Isaiah 32:9-20
New International Version
Isaiah 32:9-20
New International Version
The Women of Jerusalem
9 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)
12 Beat your breasts(J) for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vines(K)
13 and for the land of my people,
a land overgrown with thorns and briers(L)—
yes, mourn(M) for all houses of merriment
and for this city of revelry.(N)
14 The fortress(O) will be abandoned,
the noisy city deserted;(P)
citadel and watchtower(Q) will become a wasteland forever,
the delight of donkeys,(R) a pasture for flocks,(S)
15 till the Spirit(T) is poured on us from on high,
and the desert becomes a fertile field,(U)
and the fertile field seems like a forest.(V)
16 The Lord’s justice(W) will dwell in the desert,(X)
his righteousness(Y) live in the fertile field.
17 The fruit of that righteousness(Z) will be peace;(AA)
its effect will be quietness and confidence(AB) forever.
18 My people will live in peaceful(AC) dwelling places,
in secure homes,(AD)
in undisturbed places of rest.(AE)
19 Though hail(AF) flattens the forest(AG)
and the city is leveled(AH) completely,
20 how blessed you will be,
sowing(AI) your seed by every stream,(AJ)
and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.(AK)
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