Isaiah 32
32
Righteous rule
1See here: A king rules to promote righteousness;
rulers govern to promote justice,
2each like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from a storm,
like streams of water in a wasteland,
like the shade of a massive cliff in a worn-out land.
3Then the eyes of those who can see will no longer be blind,
the ears of those who can hear will listen,
4the minds of the rash will know and comprehend,
and the tongues of those who stammer will speak fluently and plainly.
5Then a fool will no longer be called honorable,
nor a villain considered respectable.
6Fools speak folly;
their minds devise wickedness,
acting irreverently,
speaking falsely of the LORD,
leaving the hungry empty,
and depriving the thirsty of drink.
7As for the villain, his villainies are evil.
He plans schemes to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speak justly.
8But an honorable person plans honorable things
and stands up for what is honorable.
Warnings to the carefree
9Women of leisure, stand up! Hear my voice!
Carefree daughters, listen to my word!
10In a little over a year,
the carefree will shudder,
because the grape harvest will fail;
the vintage won’t arrive.
11Tremble, all of you who are at ease;
shudder, all of you who are secure!
Strip yourselves, bare your skin,
and tie mourning clothes around your waist,
12beating your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
13for my people’s soil
growing barbs and thorns,
for all the joyous houses
in the jubilant town.
14The palace will be deserted,
the crowded city abandoned.
Stronghold and watchtower
will become empty fields forever,
suited for the pleasure of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks—
15until a spirit from on high
is poured out on us,
and the desert turns into farmland, and the farmland is considered a forest.
16Then justice will reside in wild lands,
and righteousness will abide in farmlands.
17The fruit of righteousness will be peace,
and the outcome of righteousness,
calm and security forever.
18Then my people will live in a peaceful dwelling,
in secure homes, in carefree resting places.
19Even if the forest falls#32.19 Or it will hail when the forest falls
and the humbled city is laid low,
20those who sow beside any stream will be happy,
sending out ox and donkey to graze.
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Isaiah 32
32
XXXII
1Behold! a king shall reign in righteousness,
And princes shall rule with equity.
2And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind,
And a covert from the tempest;
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim;
And the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,
And the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5The fool shall no longer be called honourable,
And the fraudulent shall no more be called liberal;
6For the fool will still utter folly,
And his heart will work iniquity,
To practise impiety, and to utter error against Jehovah;
To make empty the soul of the hungry,
And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to foil.
7As for the fraudulent, his instruments are evil;
He plotteth mischievous devices
To destroy the oppressed with lying words,
Even when the poor man speaketh right.
8But the honourable man will devise honourable things,
And upon honourable things will he insist.
9Arise, hear my voice, ye women that are at ease,
Give ear unto my speech, ye careless daughters.
10Many days and years shall ye be disquieted, ye careless ones!
For the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be disquieted, ye careless ones!
Strip you, and make you bare; and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12They lament for the fields,
For the pleasant field; for the fruitful vine.
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers,
Yea, upon all the joyous houses in the exulting city.
14For the palace shall be deserted, the populous city shall be forsaken;
The hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens, for a long season;
A joy of wild asses, a pasture for the flocks;
15Until the Spirit be poured out upon us from on high;
And the wilderness become a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed a forest.
16Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness inhabit the fruitful field.
17And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
18And my people shall dwell in a peaceful abode,
And in habitations secure,
And in resting-places undisturbed.
19But it shall hail at the time when the forest is cut down,
And into an humble state shall the city fall.
20Blessed are ye who sow your seed beside all waters,
Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.