Isaiah 32:9-20 ▼

9 You women so complacent, rise up and hear my voice, daughters so confident, give heed to my words.

10 In a little more than a year your confidence will be shaken; For the vintage will fail, no fruit harvest will come in.

11 Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

13 For the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the exultant city.

14 The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;

15 Until the spirit from on high is poured out on us. And the wilderness becomes a garden land and the garden land seems as common as forest.

16 Then judgment will dwell in the wilderness and justice abide in the garden land.

17 The work of justice will be peace; the effect of justice, calm and security forever.

18 My people will live in peaceful country, in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.

19 And the forest will come down completely, the city will be utterly laid low.

20 Happy are you who sow beside every stream, and let the ox and the donkey go freely!