Complacent Women Warned of Disaster (ISA 32:9-20)

[32:9] Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

[32:10] In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come.

[32:11] Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.

[32:12] Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

[32:13] for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.

[32:14] For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

[32:15] until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

[32:16] Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

[32:17] And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

[32:18] My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

[32:19] And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.

[32:20] Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.