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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the LORD; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your fine clothes and wrap yourselves in rags. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers-- yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The LORD's justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free. |
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