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10 In little more than a year,
    you complacent women will shudder;
for the grape harvest will fail,
    and the fruit harvest will not[a] come.
11 So tremble, you ladies of leisure!
    Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent!
Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist![b]
    Then wrap yourself in[c] sackcloth and beat your breasts.[d]
12 For people will be beating their breasts
    in mourning[e] over the pleasant fields,
        over the fruitful vines,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads without
  2. Isaiah 32:11 Lit. the loins; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to loins
  3. Isaiah 32:11 1QIsaa MT LXX lack yourself in
  4. Isaiah 32:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and beat your breasts
  5. Isaiah 32:12 1QIsaa MT lack mourning

10 In little more than a year(A)
    you who feel secure will tremble;
the grape harvest will fail,(B)
    and the harvest of fruit will not come.
11 Tremble,(C) you complacent women;
    shudder, you daughters who feel secure!(D)
Strip off your fine clothes(E)
    and wrap yourselves in rags.(F)
12 Beat your breasts(G) for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vines(H)

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