Isaiah 32:9-20 - Against The Carefree Women

⁹ Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. ¹⁰ In a year and some days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. ¹¹ Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth on your loins! ¹² They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards. ¹³ Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. ¹⁴ For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ¹⁵ until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. ¹⁶ And judgment shall inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness dwell in the fruitful field. ¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. ¹⁸ And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. ¹⁹ And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. ²⁰ Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.