Isaiah 32:9-20 - Against The Carefree Women

⁹ Stand up, you complacent women;
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
¹⁰ In a little more than a year
you overconfident ones will shudder,
for the vintage will fail
and the harvest will not come.
¹¹ Shudder, you complacent ones;
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare
and put sackcloth around your waists.
¹² Beat your breasts in mourning
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
¹³ for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.
¹⁴ For the palace will be forsaken,
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
¹⁵ until the Spirit from heaven is poured out on us.
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.
¹⁶ Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.
¹⁷ The result of righteousness will be peace;
the effect of righteousness
will be quiet confidence forever.
¹⁸ Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,
in safe and secure dwellings.
¹⁹ But hail will level the forest,
and the city will sink into the depths.
²⁰ Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.