Isaiah 32:9-15 - Tremble, you women who are at ease

32:9,10

In times when evil prospers you will find some women who are going along with it, living off the ill-gotten gains of the corrupt system. As an aside, we do need to realise that Isaiah here is not marking out all women, only the “complacent rich”. They feel secure, but their security is an illusion. For very soon, in just over a year, in fact, the harvest would fail and these women would no longer dwell in luxury.

32:11-13

The complacent women were revelling in their enjoyment of life, but this would soon come to an end. Instead, they should have been mourning for the state of the country. The “houses of merriment” far from being a sign of the good life, were a symptom of the rebellion against God.

32:14,15

The cities which seems safe and secure would soon become a wasteland. Only animals, rather than people, would dwell there. Even in this there was a purpose, a good purpose. The judgement would come and would last until the Spirit was poured out upon the land. And then the land would become a fertile place. Note that it is the action of God that brings salvation, but salvation it does bring.