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Rise up, ye women that are at ease;hear my voice, ye carelessdaughters; give ear unto my speech.
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Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
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They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant[a]fields, for the fruitfulvine.
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Upon the land of my people shall come upthorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses[b] of joy in the joyouscity:
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Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts[c] and towers shall be for densforever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousnessremain in the fruitful field.
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousnessquietness and assuranceforever.
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And my people shall dwell in a peaceablehabitation, and in suredwellings, and in quiet resting places;
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When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.