In 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come.
- KJV Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
- NKJV In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come.
- NASB Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, you complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.
- NLT In a short time—just a little more than a year— you careless ones will suddenly begin to care. For your fruit crops will fail, and the harvest will never take place.
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Quick answer
Within about a year the complacent will be troubled, for the harvest and vintage will fail. It matters because judgment will shatter false security through coming hardship.
Overview
Isaiah announces that within a little over a year the ease of the careless will end in distress as crops fail. The loss of harvest signals God's judgment on complacency. The verse warns that earthly comforts are fragile and cannot substitute for trust in God, who alone provides lasting security.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Jer 8:13I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- Hos 2:12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- Hos 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Isa 3:17–26the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Jer 25:10–11Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Isa 5:5–6Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Hab 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Joel 1:7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- Zeph 1:13Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
- Isa 16:10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
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