Isaiah 32:1-11 ▼

1 Behold, a king shall reign for justice, and for chiefs they shall rule for judgment.

2 And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of those seeing shall not be blinded, and the ears of those hearing shall attend.

4 And the heart of the hasty shall understand to know, and the tongue of those stammering shall hasten to speak plain.

5 Liberal shall no more be called to the foolish, and noble shall not be said to the deceiver.

6 For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 And the implements of the deceiver are evil: he will meditate counsels to destroy the humble with words of falsehood, and in the needy's speaking judgments.

8 And the liberal will counsel liberal things, and upon liberal things shall he stand.

9 Rise up, ye careless women; hear my voice, ye confident daughters; give ear to my word.

10 Days over a year shall ye being confident, be disturbed; for the vintage being finished, the ingathering shall not come.

11 Tremble, ye careless be disturbed, ye, confident: strip and be naked, gird upon the loins.