Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
Parallel translations
- WEB Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
- KJV Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
- NKJV Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.
- NASB ¶Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Listen to my word, You complacent daughters.
- NLT Listen, you women who lie around in ease. Listen to me, you who are so smug.
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Quick answer
Isaiah calls the complacent, careless women to wake up and hear his warning. It matters because false security blinds people to coming judgment.
Overview
The prophet addresses women at ease as representatives of a society lulled into complacency. He urgently summons them to listen. The call interrupts misplaced confidence with a sober warning, reflecting the prophetic concern that comfort not deafen God's people to His word and the need for repentance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Matt 13:9He who has ears, let him hear.”
- Isa 28:23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.
- Isa 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Judg 9:7When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
- Amos 6:1–6Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Jer 48:11–12Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
- Ps 49:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
- Jer 6:2–6Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
- Lam 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Isa 47:7–8You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- Zeph 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- Deut 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
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