Isaiah
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgment.
32:2 And 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.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of
the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to
be bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to
make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices
to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he
stand.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
daughters; give ear unto my speech.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip
you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon
all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall
be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild
asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in
the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low
in a low place.
32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the
feet of the ox and the ass.
