Warning to the women

9 You women who are at ease,

arise and hear my voice;

you carelessly confident daughters,

attend to what I say.

10 In little more than a year

you will shudder, for all your confidence;

for the vintage will surely fail,

and the fruit will not be garnered.

11 Tremble, you women at ease,

and you who are confident, shudder;

strip you, and make you bare,

gird (sackcloth) upon your loins,

12 and beat upon your breasts

in lament for the pleasant fields,

and for the fruitful vines,

13 and for the land of my people,

overgrown with thorns and briers.

Not a house of mirth will be left

in all the jubilant city.

14 The palace will be forsaken,

the thronging city deserted;

watchtower and hill will become

an everlasting waste.