| 32 | Isaiah | ||
| 1 | Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. | A king with integrity. Is.32.1-8 | |
| 2 | Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. | ||
| 3 | Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will hearken. | ||
| 4 | The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly. | ||
| 5 | The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honourable. | ||
| 6 | For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning Yahweh, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. | ||
| 7 | The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. | ||
| 8 | But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands. | ||
| 9 | Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. | Judgement & restoration. Is.32.9-20 | |
| 10 | In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come. | ||
| 11 | Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. | ||
| 12 | Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, | ||
| 13 | for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city. | ||
| 14 | For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; | ||
| 15 | until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. | ||
| 16 | Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. | ||
| 17 | And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever. | ||
| 18 | My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. | ||
| 19 | And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low. | ||
| 20 | Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free. | ||
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