Isaiah 32:9-20

Women of Jerusalem Warned

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech. ¹⁰ In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come. ¹¹ Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists. ¹² People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ¹³ On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city; ¹⁴ Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks-- ¹⁵ Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest. ¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. ¹⁷ The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. ¹⁸ My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, ¹⁹ Though hail comes down on the forest, And the city is brought low in humiliation. ²⁰ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, Who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.