Isaiah - Chapter 32

¹ There will be a king who reigns uprightly and princes who rule with fair judgement;

² each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams on arid ground, like the shade of a solid rock in a desolate land.

³ The eyes of seers will no longer be closed, the ears of hearers will be alert,

⁴ the heart of the hasty will learn to think things over, and the tongue of stammerers will speak promptly and clearly.

⁵ The fool will no longer be called generous, nor the rascal be styled bountiful.

⁶ For the fool speaks folly and his heart is set on villainy; he is godless in his actions and his words ascribe error to Yahweh; he starves the hungry of their food and refuses drink to the thirsty.

⁷ Everything to do with the rascal is evil, he devises infamous plans to ruin the poor with lying words even when the needy has right on his side;

⁸ but the noble person plans only noble things, noble his every move.

⁹ Stand up, you haughty women, listen to my words; you over-confident daughters, pay attention to what I say.

¹⁰ Within one year and a few days you will tremble, you over-confident women; grape-harvesting will be finished, gathering will never happen again.

¹¹ Shudder, you haughty women, tremble, you over-confident women; strip, undress, put sackcloth round your waists.

¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

¹³ for my people's soil where the bramble-bush will be growing and for all the happy houses, for the rejoicing city.

¹⁴ For the citadel will be abandoned and the thronged city deserted, Ophel and the Keep will be denuded for ever, the playground of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,

¹⁵ until the spirit is poured out on us from above, and the desert becomes an orchard, and an orchard that seems like a forest.

¹⁶ Fair judgement will fix its home in the desert, and uprightness live in this orchard,

¹⁷ and the product of uprightness will be peace, the effect of uprightness being quiet and security for ever.

¹⁸ My people will live in a peaceful home, in peaceful houses, tranquil dwellings.

¹⁹ And should the forest be totally destroyed and the city gravely humiliated,

²⁰ You will be happy to sow wherever there is water and to let the ox and donkey roam free.

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