Isaiah 32:9-20

Women of Jerusalem Warned

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease , And hear my voice ; Give ear to my word , You complacent daughters . ¹⁰ Within a year and a few days You will be troubled , O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended , And the fruit gathering will not come . ¹¹ Tremble , you women who are at ease ; Be troubled , you complacent daughters; Strip , undress and put sackcloth on your waist , ¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields , for the fruitful vine , ¹³ For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea , for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city . ¹⁴ Because the palace has been abandoned , the populated city forsaken . Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever e , A delight for wild donkeys , a pasture for flocks ; ¹⁵ Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high , And the wilderness becomes a fertile field , And the fertile field is considered as a forest . ¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field . ¹⁷ And the work of righteousness will be peace , And the service of righteousness , quietness and confidence forever e . ¹⁸ Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation , And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places ; ¹⁹ And it will hail when the forest comes down , And the city will be utterly laid low . ²⁰ How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters , Who let out freely the ox and the donkey .