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11 Tremble, you who are at ease;
    tremble, carefree ones;
strip, and strip yourself,
    and gird yourself on your loins,[a]
12 mourning over breasts,
    over fields of delight,
over the fruitful vine,
13     over the soil of my people.
It goes up in thorns[b] and briers,[c]
    indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:11 Although the carefree and at ease addressees in this verse are feminine plural (“you women”), the commands are masculine singular in form
  2. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “thorn”
  3. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “brier”