The Scriptures 1998

Isaiah 32:8-14 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

8. But the generous one devises what is generous, and by generous deeds he rises up.

9. Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; rise up you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.

10. In little more than a year you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the grape harvest shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

11. Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists.

12. Lament upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruit-bearing vine.

13. Weeds and thornbushes come up over the ground of My people, indeed, over all the houses of joy, the city of revelry;

14. for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;