Bible Strands
Isaiah 32:9
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses complacent and overconfident women in Judah, commanding them to rise and pay attention before pronouncing imminent judgment.
The words — The Hebrew terms שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת (sha'anaNOT, carefree) and בֹּטְחוֹת (boTCHOT, confident) characterize a false sense of security that the text explicitly commands the women to abandon.
The thread — This rebuke of arrogant women runs parallel to the condemnation in Isaiah 3:16 and shares the prophetic imperative to heed divine speech found in Isaiah 28:23 and Matthew 13:9.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to immediately reject self-reliance and complacency in order to attentively receive God’s warning.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 3:16 The 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—
- Isaiah 28:23 Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.
- Matthew 13:9 He who has ears, let him hear.”
- Judges 9:7 When 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.
- Psalms 49:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
- Isaiah 47:7 You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- Jeremiah 6:2 Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
- Jeremiah 48:11 Moab 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.
- Lamentations 4:5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Amos 6:1 Woe 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.