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Christian Standard Bible ®

Isaiah 32:11

Shudder, you complacent ones;tremble, you overconfident ones!Strip yourselves bareand put sackcloth around your waists.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Impenitence;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Women;   Worldliness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sackcloth;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Sackcloth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rain;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sackcloth,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Dead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Careless;   Ease;   Isaiah;   Loins;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jerusalem;  

Devotionals:

- Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for January 3;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
King James Version
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
English Standard Version
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.
New American Standard Bible
Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
New Century Version
Women, you are calm now, but you should shake with fear. Women, you feel safe now, but you should tremble. Take off your nice clothes and put rough cloth around your waist to show your sadness.
Amplified Bible
Tremble, you women who are carefree; Tremble with fear, you complacent ones! Strip, undress and wear sackcloth on your waist [in grief],
World English Bible
Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee women, that are at ease, be astonied: feare, O yee carelesse women: put off the clothes: make bare, and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Tremble, you women who are at ease;Quake, you complacent daughters;Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
Berean Standard Bible
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
Contemporary English Version
Shake and shudder, you women without a care! Strip off your clothes— put on sackcloth.
Complete Jewish Bible
Tremble, you complacent women! Shudder, you overconfident women! Strip bare, wear sackcloth to cover yourselves.
Darby Translation
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins!
Easy-to-Read Version
Women, you are calm now, but you should be afraid. You feel safe now, but you should be worried. Take off your nice clothes and put on sackcloth. Wrap it around your waist.
George Lamsa Translation
Tremble, O you rich women; be troubled, O you who publish glad tidings; strip, and make yourselves bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Good News Translation
You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.
Lexham English Bible
Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins,
Literal Translation
Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O ye rich ydle cities, ye that feare no parell, ye shalbe abashed and remoued: when ye se the barennesse, the nakednesse and preparinge to warre.
American Standard Version
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Bible in Basic English
Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins,
King James Version (1611)
Tremble yee women that are at ease: be troubled, ye carelesse ones, strip ye and make ye bare, and gird sackecloth vpon your loynes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be abashed you that lyue in aboundaunce, tremble you that lyue carelesse, cast of your rayment, make your selues bare, and put sackcloth about you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Be amazed, be pained, ye confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;
English Revised Version
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye riche wymmen, be astonyed; ye that tristen, be disturblid; vnclothe ye you, and be ye aschamed;
Update Bible Version
Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
Webster's Bible Translation
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
New English Translation
Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves— put sackcloth on your waist!
New King James Version
Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.
New Living Translation
Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your complacency. Strip off your pretty clothes, and put on burlap to show your grief.
New Life Bible
Shake with fear, you women who live an easy life. Be troubled, you daughters, who feel safe. Take off your clothes and cover your bodies with cloth made from hair.
New Revised Standard
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your loins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Tremble, ye women in comfort, Be troubled ye daughters so confident, - Strip! and bare yourselves, and gird some-what on your loins:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.
Revised Standard Version
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Young's Literal Translation
Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Contextual Overview

9Stand up, you complacent women;listen to me.Pay attention to what I say,you overconfident daughters. 10In a little more than a yearyou overconfident ones will shudder,for the grapes will failand the harvest will not come. 11Shudder, you complacent ones;tremble, you overconfident ones!Strip yourselves bareand put sackcloth around your waists.12Beat your breasts in mourningfor the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, 13for the ground of my peoplegrowing thorns and briers,indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city. 14For the palace will be deserted,the busy city abandoned.The hill and the watchtower will becomebarren places forever,the joy of wild donkeys,and a pasture for flocks, 15until the Spirit from on high is poured out on us.Then the desert will become an orchard,and the orchard will seem like a forest. 16Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,and righteousness will dwell in the orchard. 17The result of righteousness will be peace;the effect of righteousnesswill be quiet confidence forever. 18Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,in safe and secure dwellings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be troubled: Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 2:21, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 22:5, Isaiah 33:14, Luke 23:27-30, James 5:5

strip: Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 47:1-3, Deuteronomy 28:48, Hosea 2:3, Micah 1:8-11

and gird: Isaiah 3:24, Isaiah 15:3, Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 49:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:34 - General Exodus 33:4 - and no Jeremiah 49:31 - wealthy nation Joel 1:8 - Lament Acts 24:25 - Felix

Cross-References

Genesis 27:41
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 32:1
Jacob went on his way, and God’s angels met him.
Genesis 32:2
When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.
Deuteronomy 22:6
“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.
1 Samuel 12:10
Then they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, for we abandoned the Lord and worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths. Now rescue us from the power of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
1 Samuel 24:15
May the Lord be judge and decide between you and me. May he take notice and plead my case and deliver me from you.”
Psalms 16:1
Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you.
Psalms 25:20
Guard me and rescue me;do not let me be put to shame,for I take refuge in you.
Psalms 31:2
Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly.Be a rock of refuge for me,a mountain fortress to save me.
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, God, and champion my causeagainst an unfaithful nation;rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Tremble, ye women that are at ease,.... Which may be considered either as an exhortation to repentance for their sins, of which, if a due sense was impressed on their hearts, would cause a trembling of body and mind, under a fearful expectation of divine wrath; or as a prediction, that though they were now quite tranquil and easy, and nothing disturbed them, yet such calamities would come upon them as would make them tremble:

be troubled, ye careless ones; or, "confident ones" l; that live securely, trusting in their present wealth and riches, and confident that things will always continue as they are; be it known to you that trouble will come, and better it would be for you if you were now troubled for your sins, and truly repented of them, that the judgments threatened, and coming, might be prevented:

strip ye, and make you bare; of your fine clothes, and beautiful ornaments, in which they prided themselves, which used to be done in time of mourning, Ezekiel 7:27 or it signifies that this should be their case, they would be stripped not only of their richest clothes and decorating jewels, but of their ordinary apparel, and left bare and naked by the enemy:

and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins; as a token of mourning; see

Genesis 37:34 the word "sackcloth" is supplied, as it is by Kimchi, and in the Syriac and Arabic versions; though some understand it as a direction to gird their loins for servile work, signifying what would be their condition and circumstances when taken and carried captive by the enemy; they would no longer live at ease, and in pleasure, as mistresses, but would serve as handmaids.

l בוטחות "confidentes", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Strip ye, and make ye bare - That is, take off your joyful and splendid apparel, and put on the habiliments of mourning, indicative of a great calamity.

And gird sackcloth - (See the note at Isaiah 3:24).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 32:11. Gird sackcloth — שק sak, sackcloth, a word necessary to the sense, is here lost, but preserved by the Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and I. D. II., and edit. Ald. and Comp., and the Arabic and Syriac.

Tremble - be troubled - strip you — פשטה peshotah, רגזה regazah, &c. These are infinitives, with a paragogic ה he, according to Schultens, Institut. Ling. Hebr. p. 453, and are to be taken in an imperative sense.


 
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