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A Rebuke for Complacent Women

“As for you ladies of leisure—
    Get up and listen to my voice!
You daughters who feel so complacent—
    hear what I have to say!
10 In little more than a year,
    you complacent women will shudder;
for the grape harvest will fail,
    and the fruit harvest will not[a] come.
11 So tremble, you ladies of leisure!
    Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent!
Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist![b]
    Then wrap yourself in[c] sackcloth and beat your breasts.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads without
  2. Isaiah 32:11 Lit. the loins; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to loins
  3. Isaiah 32:11 1QIsaa MT LXX lack yourself in
  4. Isaiah 32:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and beat your breasts

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