Isaiah 32

Isaiah

32 ¹Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will govern in justice.

²And each will be like a refuge from the wind
and a shelter from the tempest,

like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great cliff in a weary land.

³And the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will listen,

⁴and the heart of the rash will understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers will speak fluently.

⁵The fool will no longer be called noble,
nor a villain said to be honorable.

⁶For the fool speaks folly,
and his heart works iniquity

in order to do ungodliness
and to speak error against the LORD,

to make empty the soul of the hungry
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

⁷And the instruments of the villain are evil;
he devises wickednesses

to destroy the poor with lying words
when the needy speak justly.

⁸But the noble person makes noble plans,
and such rises to noble things.

The Lord

⁹“Women who are at ease, rise up, hear My voice!
And carefree daughters, give ear to My speech!

¹⁰Days beyond a year, carefree ones will quake,

because the vintage will fail,
the harvest will not come.

¹¹Tremble, you women who are at ease;
quake, carefree ones;

strip
and make yourselves bare,

and gird {sackcloth} upon your waists,
¹²beat on your breasts,

over pleasant fields,
over a fruitful vine;

¹³On My people’s soil
thorn and briar will come up,

yea, upon all the exulting houses, the town of revelry,

¹⁴because the palaces will be forsaken,
the multitude of the [houses][1] shall be [desolate].

The citadel and watchtower will become desolate spaces forever,

a joy of wild asses,
a pasture of flocks.

Isaiah

¹⁵Until the Spirit from on high is poured out upon us,

and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

¹⁶Then justice will reside in the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the fruitful field.

¹⁷And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.

The Lord

¹⁸And My people will live in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places.

¹⁹And when it hails, coming down on the forest,
and the city is totally laid low:[2]

²⁰Happy, you who sow beside all waters
and who let the ox and the donkey range free.”