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Isaiah 32 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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A King Will Reign in Righteousness

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:1 - Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:3 - Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:5 - The fool will no more be called noble,
nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the LORD,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:7 - As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:8 - But he who is noble plans noble things,
and on noble things he stands.

Complacent Women Warned of Disaster

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:9 - Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 - In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
the fruit harvest will not come.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11 - Tremble, you women who are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
strip, and make yourselves bare,
and tie sackcloth around your waist.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 - For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 - until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:16 - Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:17 - And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust[fn] forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:18 - My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - And it will hail when the forest falls down,
and the city will be utterly laid low.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20 - Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.
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