Isaiah Chapter 32 verse 9 Holy Bible
Rise up, ye women that are at ease, `and' hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
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Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.
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Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
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Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
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Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.
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Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear `to' my saying,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 9-12. - A REBUKE OF THE WOMEN. It might seem at first sight as if we had here a detached utterance of the prophet, accidentally conjoined with the preceding passage (vers. 1-8). But vers. 15-18 furnish a link of connection between the two portions of the chapter, and make it probable that they were delivered at the same time. Mr. Cheyne supposes that the indifference of a knot of women, gathered at some little distance from the men to whom Isaiah had addressed vers. 1-8, provoked the prophet suddenly to turn to them, and speak to them in terms of warning. Verse 9. - Rise up. The "careless daughters" are sitting, or reclining upon couches, at their ease. The prophet bids them stand up, to hear a message from God (comp. Judges 3:10). Ye women that are at ease; i.e. "that are self-satisfied and self-complacent." The word employed has almost always a bad sense (see 2 Kings 19:28; Job 12:5; Psalm 123:4; Amos 6:1; Zechariah 1:15). Hear my voice. This clause should be attached to the first half of the verse. The order of the words in the original is, "Ye women that are at ease, rise up and hear my words; ye careless daughters, hearken unto my speech."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Rise up, ye women that are at ease . . .--The beginning of a new section, probably a distinct sermon, or, as it were, pamphlet, against the evils of which the prophet had spoken in Isaiah 2:16-22, and which continued, it would seem, unabated, in spite of Hezekiah's reformation. It probably finds a place here as painting the harem influence, which then, as in the policy of modern Eastern monarchies, Constantinople and elsewhere, lay behind the counsels of the king and his ministers. The whole tone is that of invective against the women of the pseudo-aristocracy that had been covertly attacked in the preceding verses.Give ear unto my speech . . .--Another echo of the teaching of the Proverbs (Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 6:20.) . . .
