Isaiah 32
32
Reign in Righteousness
1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness and princes will rule in justice.
2Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.
3Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will pay attention.
4The heart of the hasty will understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers will speak fluently, clearly.
5No longer will a fool be called noble, or a scoundrel said to be a gentleman.
6For the fool speaks foolishness and his heart works wickedness, to practice ungodliness, and speak error about Adonai, to deprive the hungry of food and withhold drink from the thirsty.
7The scoundrel’s methods are evil— he makes up wicked schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
8But the noble devises noble plans, and for noble causes he stands.
9Rise up, you women at ease, And hear my voice. You complacent daughters, give ear to my words.
10Within a year and a few days you will shudder, complacent ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the gathering will not come.
11Tremble, you women at ease! Shudder, you complacent ones! Strip and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your waist.
12Beat your breasts lamenting for pleasant fields, for fruitful vine,
13for the land of my people, where thorns and briars come up, for all the joyful houses of the jubilant city.
14For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
15until the Ruach is poured out on us from on high, and the desert becomes a garden, and a garden seems like a forest.
16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the garden.
17The result of righteousness will be shalom and the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.
18My people will live in a peaceful place, in secure dwellings, quiet resting places.
19Then hail will flatten the forest; and the city will be utterly laid low.
20Blessed are you, sowing by all waters, letting the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.
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Isaias (Isaiah) 32
32
1BEHOLD, a king shall reign in justice: and princes shall rule in judgment.
2And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm: as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.
3The eyes of them that see shall not be dim: and the ears of them that hear shall hearken diligently.
4And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge: and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.
5The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great.
6For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry and take away drink from the thirsty.
7The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.
8But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince: and he shall stand above the rulers.
9Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.
10For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.
11Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.
12Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.
13Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up. How much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced!
14For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever: a joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks,
15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high. And the desert shall be as a Charmel: and Charmel shall be counted for a forest.
16And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness: and justice shall sit in Charmel.
17And the work of justice shall be peace: and the service of justice quietness and security for ever.
18And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.
19But hail shall be in the descent of the forest: and the city shall be made very low.
20Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.
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