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Isaiah 32:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Listen to what I say, you women who are carefree and careless!

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and we can't take more abuse from those proud, conceited people.

Pay close attention to what I am saying.

The LORD says: The women of Jerusalem are proud and strut around, winking shamelessly. They wear anklets that jingle and call attention to the way they walk.

Now those of us on Zion cry, ‘We are ruined! We can't stand the shame. Our homes have been destroyed, and we must leave our land.’

“We ask you women to pay attention to what the LORD says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on rubbish heaps.

This is the glorious city that felt secure and said, “I am the only one!” Now it's merely ruins, a home for wild animals. Every passer-by simply sneers and makes vulgar signs.

If you have ears, pay attention!

A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.

Jotham heard what they were doing. So he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted down to the people who were there at the meeting: Leaders of Shechem, listen to me, and perhaps God will listen to you.




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