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Rise up ,
you women who are at ease ,
hear my voice ;
you complacent daughters ,
give ear to my speech .
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In little more than a year you will shudder ,
you complacent women ;
for the vintage will fail ,
the fruit harvest will not come .
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Tremble ,
you women who are at ease ,
shudder ,
you complacent ones ;
strip ,
and make yourselves bare ,
and gird sackcloth upon your loins .
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Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields ,
for the fruitful vine ,
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for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers ;
yea ,
for all the joyous houses in the joyful city .
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For the palace will be forsaken ,
the populous city deserted ;
the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever ,
a joy of wild asses ,
a pasture of flocks ;
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until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high ,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field ,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest .
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Then justice will dwell in the wilderness ,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field .
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And the effect of righteousness will be peace ,
and the result of righteousness ,
quietness and trust for ever .
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My people will abide in a peaceful habitation ,
in secure dwellings ,
and in quiet resting places .
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And the forest will utterly go down ,
and the city will be utterly laid low .
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Happy are you who sow beside all waters ,
who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free .