Isaiah 32
32
The Kingdom of Justice
1See, a king will reign justly
and princes will rule rightly.#Is 9:6; 11:4; 16:5; Ps 72:1–4; Jer 23:5–6.
2Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain.
They will be like streams of water in a dry country,
like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.#Is 4:6; 16:4; 25:4.
3The eyes of those who see will not be closed;
the ears of those who hear will be attentive.#Is 6:10; 29:18; 35:5.
4The hasty of heart shall take thought to know,
and tongues of stutterers shall speak readily and clearly.
5No more will the fool be called noble,
nor the deceiver be considered honorable.#Is 5:20.
6For the fool speaks folly,
his heart plans evil:
Godless actions,
perverse speech against the Lord,
Letting the hungry go empty
and the thirsty without drink.#Prv 15:2.
7The deceits of the deceiver are evil,
he plans devious schemes:
To ruin the poor with lies,
and the needy when they plead their case.#Is 29:20–21; Mi 2:1.
8But the noble plan noble deeds,
and in noble deeds they persist.
The Women of Jerusalem
9You women so complacent, rise up and hear my voice,
daughters so confident, give heed to my words.#Is 3:16–24; Am 6:1.
10In a little more than a year
your confidence will be shaken;
For the vintage will fail,
no fruit harvest will come in.#Zep 1:13.
11Tremble, you who are so complacent!
Shudder, you who are so confident!
Strip yourselves bare,
with only a loincloth for cover.#Is 20:2; Jer 4:8; Mi 1:8.
12Beat your breasts
for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine;#Is 16:9.
13For the soil of my people,
overgrown with thorns and briers;
For all the joyful houses,
the exultant city.#Is 5:6; 7:23–25; 22:2; 34:13.
14The castle#The castle: the fortified royal palace in Jerusalem. Citadel: Ophel, the fortified hill, with its stronghold called “the great projecting tower” (Neh 3:27). will be forsaken,
the noisy city deserted;
Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever,
the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;#Is 7:25; 24:10–11.
15#32:15–18, 20] Extraordinary peace and prosperity will come to Israel under just rulers. Until the spirit from on high
is poured out on us.
And the wilderness becomes a garden land
and the garden land seems as common as forest.#Is 44:3; Ps 104:30; Ez 37:9–10; Jl 3:1–2.
16Then judgment will dwell in the wilderness
and justice abide in the garden land.
17The work of justice will be peace;
the effect of justice, calm and security forever.#Is 9:6; 30:15; 33:15–16; Ps 72:2–3, 7; Jas 3:18.
18My people will live in peaceful country,
in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.#Jer 23:6; Mi 4:4.
19And the forest will come down completely,
the city will be utterly laid low.#Probably from a different context, perhaps after v. 14a. #Is 10:33–34; 26:5.
20Happy are you who sow beside every stream,
and let the ox and the donkey go freely!#Is 7:25; 30:18, 23.
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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.