Isaiah 32:9-20

Women of Jerusalem Warned

⁹ Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger. ¹⁰ In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes. ¹¹ Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief. ¹² Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine; ¹³ And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town. ¹⁴ For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks; ¹⁵ Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood. ¹⁶ Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field. ¹⁷ And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever. ¹⁸ And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places. ¹⁹ But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place. ²⁰ Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.