Against the Carefree Women

• 9 who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word!
• 10 In a year[fn] you will tremble, carefree ones,for the vintage will come to an end;
  • the harvest will not come.
  • 11 you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones;
• strip, and strip yourself,
  • and gird yourself on your loins,[fn]
  • 12 over fields of delight,
• over the fruitful vine,
• 13  It goes up in thorns[fn]and briers,[fn]
  • indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.
  • 14 the palace will be forsaken, the[fn] deserted;
• the hill and the watchtower will become[fn] a cave forever,
  • the joy of wild asses, a pasture[fn] flocks.
• 15 Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high,and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
  • and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.
  • 16 [fn] justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.
  • 17  and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.
  • 18  and in a dwelling place of security
  • and in undisturbed resting places.
  • 19 [fn] and the city will become low in humiliation.
  • 20 are you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.