Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, ye women, that are at ease

Female complacency reproved

Isaiah turns aside abruptly from his main theme.

His eye, we may suppose, was arrested by the spectacle of some women, sitting down perhaps at a little distance from where he stood, and testifying their indifference to his words. In chap.

3. it was their vanity and love of display which called forth the prophet’s censure: here it is their complacency and unconcern. (Prof. S. B. Driver, D. D.)