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Isaiah 32:9-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Isaiah 32:9-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.
10 In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent ones;
for the vintage will fail,
the fruit harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
strip, and make yourselves bare,
and put sackcloth on your loins.
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
13 for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers;
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the jubilant city.
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watch-tower
will become dens for ever,
the joy of wild asses,
a pasture for flocks;
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.
The Peace of God’s Reign
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
19 The forest will disappear completely,[a]
and the city will be utterly laid low.
20 Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,
who let the ox and the donkey range freely.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 32:19 Cn: Heb And it will hail when the forest comes down
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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