Isaiah 32:11

What does Isaiah 32:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 32:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins!

Context

v.10For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

v.11This passage

v.12They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 47:1

    Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

  • Micah 1:8

    For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

  • Luke 23:27

    And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.

  • Isaiah 22:4

    Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isaiah 33:14

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?

  • Jeremiah 4:8

    For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

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