Complacent Women Warned of Disaster. Isa 32:9-20
III. THE SIX WOES, Isaiah 28-35
5. To Those Who Rely on Horses and Chariots
31. What are the fruits of righteousness?
COMPLACENT WOMEN WARNED OF DISASTER
Rise up, you women who are carefree, And hear my voice, You confident and unsuspecting daughters! Listen to what I am saying.
In little more than a year You will tremble [with anxiety], you unsuspecting and complacent women; For the vintage has ended, And the harvest will not come.
Tremble, you women who are carefree; Tremble with fear, you complacent ones! Strip, undress and wear sackcloth on your waist [in grief],
Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,
For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars– Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
For the palace has been abandoned, the populated city deserted; The hill [of the city] and the watchtower have become caves [for wild animals] forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is valued as a forest. [Psa_104:30; Eze_36:26-27; Eze_39:29; Zec_12:10]
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness will live in the fertile field.
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, And the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.
Then my people will live in a peaceful surrounding, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.
But it will hail, when the forest comes down, And the [capital] city will fall in utter humiliation.
Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land], You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.
31. What are the fruits of righteousness?
THE FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
When Christ’s kingdom is set up it will bring dismay to the poor children of fashion. For more days than there are in the year will they be troubled, Isa_32:10, and will smite on their breasts in lamentation, Isa_32:12. The prediction of Isa_32:15-20 includes Pentecost, and looks forward to the era which lies immediately beyond this travail of the world. What is now reckoned as a fruitful field will be regarded as a barren forest in comparison with what shall then exist. Let us remember that righteousness must precede peace. See Mat_5:24 and Heb_7:2. When God’s judgments are hurtling through the air, and proud cities are being leveled to the earth, let us take refuge in His loving care. In Him are our safe dwellings and our quiet resting-places. But when the world is most unquiet, let us pursue our work of salvation; for when waters overflow the banks of the river, oxen and asses may still be sent forth to make furrows for the harvest seed.
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