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Listen, you women who lie around in ease.
    Listen to me, you who are so smug.
10 In a short time—just a little more than a year—
    you careless ones will suddenly begin to care.
For your fruit crops will fail,
    and the harvest will never take place.
11 Tremble, you women of ease;
    throw off your complacency.
Strip off your pretty clothes,
    and put on burlap to show your grief.

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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