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 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, and the harvest shall not come in. ¹¹ Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. ¹² Upon their breasts they shall lament for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ¹³ Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; even upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: ¹⁴ Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the noise of the city shall cease; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ¹⁵ until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness is turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted for a forest. ¹⁶ Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall remain in the fruitful field. ¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness rest and security for ever. ¹⁸ And my people shall dwell in a habitation of peace and in secure dwellings and in the refreshing of rest. ¹⁹ And the hail, when it shall come down, shall be in the forest; and the city shall be completely laid low. ²⁰ Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, ye that plow with the ox and with the ass.