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Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in judgment.
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.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of
them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the
tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl
said to be bountiful.
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.
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.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
shall he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for
the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for
the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea,
upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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;
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.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness
remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
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