Isaiah 32:9-20

English Standard Version

^9 (A)Rise up, you women ^(B)who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
¹⁰ In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
    the fruit harvest will not come.
¹¹ Tremble, you women ^(C)who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
^(D)strip, and make yourselves bare,
    ^(E)and tie sackcloth around your waist.
^12 (F)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
^13 (G)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
^(H)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.
¹⁴ For the palace is forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
^(I)a joy of wild donkeys,
    a pasture of flocks;
¹⁵ until ^(J)the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
    and ^(K)the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
    and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
^17 (L)And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
    and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust^[a] forever.
¹⁸ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
    in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
^19 (M)And it will hail when the forest falls down,
    ^(N)and the city will be utterly laid low.
^20 (O)Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
    who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.