Isaiah 32:9-20 - Against The Carefree Women

⁹ "As for you ladies of leisure Get up and listen to my voice! You daughters who feel so complacent hear what I have to say! ¹⁰ In little more than a year, you complacent women will shudder; for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not come. ¹¹ So tremble, you ladies of leisure! Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent! Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist! Then wrap yourself in sackcloth and beat your breasts. ¹² For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines, ¹³ and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry. ¹⁴ "For the palace will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become barren wastes forever, the delight of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks, ¹⁵ until the Spirit from on high is poured upon us, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest." ¹⁶ "Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field. ¹⁷ The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever. ¹⁸ My people will live in peaceful dwellings, in secure homes and in undisturbed resting places. ¹⁹ But it will hail when the forest comes down, and the wood will be leveled completely. ²⁰ How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"