Our soul has had enough of the scorn of those at ease, the contempt of the proud.
Isaiah 32:9 - Tree of Life Version Rise up, you women at ease, And hear my voice. You complacent daughters, give ear to my words. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 enough of the scorn of those at ease, the contempt of the proud.
Moreover Adonai says: “Since the Daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,
Now, hear the word of Adonai, O women, let your ear receive the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters wailing and everyone her neighbor a dirge.
For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off children from the street and young men from the squares.”
Those who used to eat delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace trash heaps.
This is the exultant city, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, ‘It’s me--no one else but me!’ How did she become a ruin, an abode for wild beasts? Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
The tender and delicate woman among you, who never ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground out of delicateness and tenderness—her eye will become evil against the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter.
Now when they told Jotam, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, lifted up his voice, called out and said to them, “Listen to me, O lords of Shechem, that God may listen to you!