Isaiah 32:9-20 - Against The Carefree Women

⁹ You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say! ¹⁰ In a year's time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive. ¹¹ Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves -- put sackcloth on your waist! ¹² Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! ¹³ Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry. ¹⁴ For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there. ¹⁵ This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest. ¹⁶ Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard. ¹⁷ Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security. ¹⁸ My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places. ¹⁹ Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated, ²⁰ you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.