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11 So tremble, you ladies of leisure!
    Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent!
Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist![a]
    Then wrap yourself in[b] sackcloth and beat your breasts.[c]
12 For people will be beating their breasts
    in mourning[d] over the pleasant fields,
        over the fruitful vines,
13 and over the land of my people
    overgrown with thorns and[e] briers—
yes, over all the houses of merriment
    and over this city of revelry.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:11 Lit. the loins; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to loins
  2. Isaiah 32:11 1QIsaa MT LXX lack yourself in
  3. Isaiah 32:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and beat your breasts
  4. Isaiah 32:12 1QIsaa MT lack mourning
  5. Isaiah 32:13 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and