Isaiah 32:9-20 - Against The Carefree Women

⁹ Rise up, women who are at ease; hear my voice, careless daughters; listen to my speech. ¹⁰ Many days and years you shall be troubled, careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. ¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; be troubled, careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and bind sackcloth on your loins. ¹² They shall mourn for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ¹³ On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city; ¹⁴ because the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; instead the mound and tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks ¹⁵ until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is thought to be a forest. ¹⁶ Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. ¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the service of righteousness shall be quietness and hope forever. ¹⁸ And my people shall dwell in a peaceable home, and in secure dwellings and quiet resting places. ¹⁹ Though it hails, when the forest is felled, and the city laid low. ²⁰ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the ass.