Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
Isaiah 32:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, listen to my speech. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my [Isaiah's] voice, you confident and careless daughters! Listen to what I am saying! American Standard Version (1901) Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. Common English Bible Women of leisure, stand up! Hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word! Catholic Public Domain Version You opulent women, rise up and listen to my voice! O confident daughters, play close attention to my eloquence! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech. |
Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: “How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.”
Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a dirge and each to her neighbor a lament.
Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.
Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.
She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,
When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.