Isaiah 32:4-14

4 The minds of the impetuous will learn to weigh carefully, the tongues of the stutterers will speak readily and clearly.
5 The mean person will no longer be called generous, or the miserly said to be noble;
6 for the mean person will speak meanness, his heart planning evil, so that he can act godlessly, spreading error concerning ADONAI, as he lets the hungry go on starving and deprives the thirsty of drink.
7 The mean person's means are mean - he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor and needy with lies, even when their cause is just.
8 But the generous person devises generous things, and his generosity will keep him standing.
9 You women who are so complacent, listen to me! Overconfident women, pay attention to my words!
10 In a year and a few days more, you overconfident women will shudder, because the vintage will fail, the harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you complacent women! Shudder, you overconfident women! Strip bare, wear sackcloth to cover yourselves.
12 Beat your breasts in mourning for the pleasant fields and fruitful vines,
13 for the land of my people, producing thorns and briars, for all the happy homes in the joyful city.
14 For the palace will be abandoned, the crowded city deserted, 'Ofel and fortress wastelands forever, a delight for wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.