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.
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.
- 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.
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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 7:23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
- Jer 8:13“‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be 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 2:12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.
- Joel 1:12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
- Hos 3:4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
- Isa 3:17–26therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted 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 lamp.
- Isa 5:5–6Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
- Hab 3:17For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
- Joel 1:7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
- Zeph 1:13Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
- Isa 16:10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
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