Isaiah 32
32
Chapter 32
An honest king
1Look! A king is coming who will rule in a right and fair way.
Honest leaders will rule under his authority.
2Each leader will be like a safe place to hide
from strong winds and storms.
He will be like streams of water in a desert.
And he will be like the shadow of a great rock in a hot, dry land.
3At that time, everyone who has eyes will be able to see clearly.
Everyone who has ears will be able to listen well.
4People who do things too quickly will stop and think first.
Those who cannot speak well will be able to talk clearly.
5Nobody will praise a stupid person.
Nobody will respect people who cheat others.
6Stupid people say silly things.
They think of evil things that they can do.
They live in a way that does not respect God.
The things that they teach about the Lord are false.
They keep food away from hungry people.
They give no drink to thirsty people.
7Cruel people do evil things to deceive others.
They think of ways that they can cheat their friends.
They tell lies to give trouble to poor people.
So poor people do not receive the justice that they deserve.
8But good people think of ways that they can be kind to others.
They do the good things that they have decided to do.
A message about Jerusalem's women #32:9 Isaiah warns the women about trouble that will come. This shows the trouble that will come to the cities and towns of Judah.
9You women, listen carefully to what I say to you!
You think that you have no problems.
You feel very safe.
But listen to me!
10Now, you think that you are safe,
but in one year's time, you will shake with fear.
There will be no grapes at harvest time.
You will pick no fruit from your trees.
11You think that you have no problems,
but you should be afraid.
Yes, shake with fear!
Take off all your beautiful clothes.
Tie rough cloth round your legs instead.
12Weep and hit your breasts,
because your good fields have no crops,
and your vines have no grapes.
13Weep because of what has happened to my people's land.
Only thorn bushes and weeds grow there.
Weep because there are no longer any happy homes.
There are no more parties in the city.
14Nobody will remain in the king's great palace.
The city that is now full of people will be empty.
The city's hill and its strong buildings
will become heaps of stones for ever.
Wild donkeys will play in those places,
and sheep will find grass to eat.
15It will be like that until God pours a new spirit on us from heaven.
Then, deserts will become fields of fruit trees.
And fields of fruit trees will seem like forests.
16Everywhere, people will be honest and fair,
in the deserts as well as in the fields.
17People will do things that are right,
so there will be peace.
People will always be safe.
18My people will live safely and quietly in their homes.
They will not be afraid of trouble.
19A storm of hail may destroy the forest.
The buildings in the city may all fall down too.
20But still the Lord will bless you.
You will plant your seeds beside streams of water.
You will send your cows and donkeys into the fields,
and they will have plenty of grass to eat.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 32
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1See, a sovereign shall reign in righteousness, and rulers rule in right-ruling.
2And each one shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the downpour, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3And the eyes of those who see are not dim, and the ears of those who hear listen.
4And the heart of the rash understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers hurries to speak plainly.
5A fool is no longer called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be respectable;
6for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against יהוה that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty.
7And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.
8But the generous one devises what is generous, and by generous deeds he rises up.
9Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; rise up you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.
10In little more than a year you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the grape harvest shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
11Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists.
12Lament upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruit-bearing vine.
13Weeds and thornbushes come up over the ground of My people, indeed, over all the houses of joy, the city of revelry;
14for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
15until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall become garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest.
16Then right-ruling shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the garden-land.
17The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the service of righteousness be rest and safety forever.
18And My people shall dwell in a home of peace, and in safe dwellings, and in undisturbed resting places,
19even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation.
20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the donkey.
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