Isaiah 32:9-20

9Rise up, you women who are carefree, And hear my voice, You confident and unsuspecting daughters! Listen to what I am saying.

10In little more than a year You will tremble [with anxiety], you unsuspecting and complacent women; For the vintage has ended, And the harvest will not come.

11Tremble, you women who are carefree; Tremble with fear, you complacent ones! Strip, undress and wear sackcloth on your waist [in grief],

12Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,

13For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars— Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

14For the palace has been abandoned, the populated city deserted; The hill [of the city] and the watchtower have become caves [for wild animals] forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

15Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is valued as a forest.

16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness will live in the fertile field.

17And the effect of righteousness will be peace, And the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.

18Then my people will live in a peaceful surrounding, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.

19But it will hail, when the forest comes down, And the [capital] city will fall in utter humiliation.

20Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land], You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.