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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Each 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. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For 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. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For 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; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free. |
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