Isaiah 32:9 “Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you…”

Isaiah 32:9

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

World English Bible

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

American Standard Version

Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.

Geneva Bible 1599

Rise vp, ye women that are at ease: heare my voyce, ye carelesse daughters: hearken to my wordes.

Darby Translation

Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.

Young's Literal Translation

Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear [to] my saying,

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

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Cross references

“ye women”

Isaiah 3:16 Jeremiah 6:2–6 Lamentations 4:5 Amos 6:1–6 Deuteronomy 28:56 Isaiah 47:7

Isaiah 3:16 · BSB

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

Jeremiah 6:2–6 · BSB

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Lamentations 4:5 · BSB

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Amos 6:1–6 · BSB

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

Deuteronomy 28:56 · BSB

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Isaiah 47:7 · BSB

You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

“give ear”

Isaiah 28:23 Matthew 13:9 Judges 9:7 Psalm 49:1 Psalm 49:2

Isaiah 28:23 · BSB

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

Matthew 13:9 · BSB

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Judges 9:7 · BSB

When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.

Psalm 49:1 · BSB

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Psalm 49:2 · BSB

both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Also

Zephaniah 2:15

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

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

In context

8But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.

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.

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