Isaiah 32:9-20

Women of Jerusalem Warned

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice!
You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! ¹⁰ For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;
for the vintage shall fail.
The harvest won’t come. ¹¹ Tremble, you women who are at ease!
Be troubled, you careless ones!
Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
and put sackcloth on your waist. ¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine. ¹³ Thorns and briars will come up on my people’s land;
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. ¹⁴ For the palace will be forsaken.
The populous city will be deserted.
The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,
a delight for wild donkeys,
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 considered a forest. ¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;
and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. ¹⁷ The work of righteousness will be peace;
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. ¹⁸ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in safe dwellings,
and in quiet resting places. ¹⁹ Though hail flattens the forest,
and the city is leveled completely. ²⁰ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.