Isaiah 32:9
You women of Jerusalem who think that you are very secure/safe and think that everything is going well, listen to [IDM] what I say!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:56Even the most gentle and sensitive/kind women among you, who are very refined/rich with the result that they have never had to walk anywhere [HYP], will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a baby, they will secretly kill it and eat its flesh and also eat its afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
Psalms 49:1You people of all ethnic groups, listen! You people all over the world,
Isaiah 28:23Listen [IDM] to what I say; pay attention carefully.
Jeremiah 6:2Jerusalem is like a beautiful pasture full of sheep, but it will soon be destroyed.
Jeremiah 48:11The people of Moab have always felt secure; they have never been ◄exiled/forced by their enemies to go to other countries►. They are like [MET] wine that has been left undisturbed in a container for many days to give it good flavor, so now it smells good, and it tastes good.
Amos 6:1Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything, and also to you leaders who live on Samaria Hill who think that you are safe. You think that [IRO] you are the most important people in the world, people to whom Israeli people [MTY] go to get help.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 32:2-9
The Reign of Justice. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5 The vile… Read the whole commentary →