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9 Women [who are] at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen [to] my word!
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You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!
10 {In a year} you will tremble, carefree ones, for [the] vintage will come to an end; [the] harvest will not come.
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In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.
11 Tremble, [you who are] at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on [your] loins,
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Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your fine clothes and wrap yourselves in rags.
12 mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over [the] fruitful vine,
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Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines
13 over the soil of my people. It goes up [in] thorns [and] briers, indeed over all of [the] houses of joy [in the] jubilant city.
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and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.
14 For [the] palace will be forsaken, [the] {crowded city} deserted; [the] hill and [the] watchtower will become a cave forever, [the] joy of wild asses, a pasture {for} flocks.
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The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for 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.
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till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.
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The LORD’s justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.
17 And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.
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The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
18 And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.
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My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.
19 And it hails when {the forest comes down}, and the city will become low in humiliation.
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Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,
20 Happy [are] you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.
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how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.
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