Isaiah 32:9-20 ▼

9 Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, || Daughters, confident ones, give ear [to] my saying,

10 In days and a year || You are troubled, O confident ones, || For harvest has been consumed, || The gathering does not come.

11 Tremble, you women, you easy ones, || Be troubled, you confident ones, || Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

12 They are lamenting for breasts, || For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

13 Over the ground of my people thorn [and] brier go up, || Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

14 The palace has been left, || The multitude of the city forsaken, || Fort and watchtower have been for dens for all time, || A joy of wild donkeys—a pasture of herds;

15 Until the Spirit is emptied out on us from on high, || And a wilderness has become a fruitful field, || And the fruitful field is reckoned for a forest.

16 And judgment has dwelt in the wilderness, || And righteousness remains in the fruitful field.

17 And a work of the righteousness has been peace, || And a service of the righteousness—Keeping quiet and confidence for all time.

18 And My people have dwelt in a peaceful habitation, || And in steadfast dwelling places, || And in quiet resting places.

19 And it has hailed in the going down of the forest, || And the city is low in the valley.

20 Blessed [are] you sowing by all waters, || Sending forth the foot of the ox and the donkey!