What Does Isaiah 32:10 Mean in the King James?
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Behind “careless” is a word for being secure: the shock is that those who feel settled are the ones told they will tremble.
THE MEANING
The vintage fails, the gathering never comes, and the security of the women gives way to trouble. The verse speaks now wherever provision seems settled, naming the possibility of loss without making that loss abstract.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Feeling secure does not mean the things you rely on cannot fail.
THE ROOT
בֹּטְחוֹת
bōṭĕḥôt
GROWS FROM
בטח
To trust or feel secure.
“careless” in this verse is bōṭĕḥôt. The word names women who feel secure, not simply women who are negligent. The verse turns that felt security into trembling, exposing the distance between feeling settled and knowing what the harvest will bring.
ALSO GROWS
bāṭaḥ: To trust or feel secure.
בָּטַח
This verb is the root beneath the women’s description: their ease carries the sense of confidence.
mivṭāḥ: A refuge or place of security.
מִבְטָח
This related noun makes the idea of security concrete: the verse asks what can truly serve as a refuge when the vintage fails.
תִּרְגַּזְנָה
tirgaznah
GROWS FROM
רגז
To quake, tremble, or become agitated.
“troubled” in this verse is tirgaznah. The word evokes shaking, not just a passing concern. The verse sets that agitation against the women’s sense of security and names the shock of a harvest that does not arrive.
ALSO GROWS
rāgaz: To quake, tremble, or become agitated.
רָגַז
This verb makes the coming trouble feel like a real shaking of the people who felt secure.
rōgez: Agitation or tumult.
רֹגֶז
This related noun carries the same root into the state of upheaval the verse announces.
THE PATTERN
Security built on expected provision can be shaken when the yield fails.
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.THE THREAD
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.The word rendered “careless” here and “confidence” in Isaiah 30:15 comes from בטח (bāṭaḥ), meaning to trust or feel secure. The shared root opens a question beneath the warning: what is the confidence resting on when the harvest fails?
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