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