6 For the fool speaks folly and his mind thinks sinfully: he practices wickedness and takes pride in godlessness
7 The ways of the scoundrel are also evil, scheming wickedly against the poor, destroying the needy with lies even when their plea is just.
8 But those who are noble plan noble things, and so are their deeds.
Tremble, you idle women
9 Rise up, women who are at ease
10 In a little over a year, you who feel complacent will be shaken, for harvest will not come and the vintage will fail.
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, 13 for the soil of my peo ple overgrown with briers and thorns, for all the houses of joy, for the city of the wan ton.
14 For the palace will be abandoned, and the noisy city deserted
My people will live in peace
15 When at last the spirit is poured on us from on high, then will the desert become a garden, and this garden will be free as a fallow land.
16 Justice will dwell in the wilderness
18 My people will live in comfort and bliss in a land of secure dwellings and un disturbed resting places. 19 While the forest will be beat en down and the fortress laid waste.
20 How blessed you will be, sowing by every stream, letting your work animals roam contented and free.