Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Jer 8:13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
- Hos 2:12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
- Joel 1:12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- Hos 3:4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
- Isa 3:17–26Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Jer 25:10–11Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
- Isa 5:5–6And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Hab 3:17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
- Joel 1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
- Zeph 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
- Isa 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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