Isaiah 32:11 “Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency.…”

Isaiah 32:11

Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Yee women, that are at ease, be astonied: feare, O yee carelesse women: put off the clothes: make bare, and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“be troubled”

Isaiah 2:19 Isaiah 2:21 Isaiah 33:14 Luke 23:27–30 James 5:5 Isaiah 22:4

Isaiah 2:19 · BSB

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 2:21 · BSB

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 33:14 · BSB

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

Luke 23:27–30 · BSB

A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.

James 5:5 · BSB

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

“strip”

Isaiah 20:4 Isaiah 47:1–3 Deuteronomy 28:48 Hosea 2:3 Micah 1:8–11

Isaiah 20:4 · BSB

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Isaiah 47:1–3 · BSB

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Deuteronomy 28:48 · BSB

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Hosea 2:3 · BSB

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Micah 1:8–11 · BSB

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

“and gird”

Isaiah 3:24 Isaiah 15:3 Jeremiah 4:8 Jeremiah 6:26 Jeremiah 49:3

Isaiah 3:24 · BSB

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isaiah 15:3 · BSB

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

Jeremiah 4:8 · BSB

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 6:26 · BSB

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 49:3 · BSB

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

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