Isaiah 32:1-15 ▼

1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.

2 And each man will be like a hiding place from the wind and a cover from the tempest, like streams of waters in a dry land, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of those seeing will no longer be closed, and the ears of those hearing will listen;

4 and the heart of those being hasty will understand to know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hurry to speak clearly.

5 A foolish one will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said to be honorable;

6 for a foolish one speaks foolishness, and his heart makes trouble, to practice profanity and to speak error against YHWH, keeping empty the soul of the hungry, and the thirsty he deprives of drink.

7 And the scoundrel—his vessels are evil—he counsels wicked plots to destroy the poor with deceptive words, even when the plea of the needy is just.

8 And a noble counsels noble things, and he for noble things will stand.

9 Rise up O women at ease, hear my voice; O secure daughters, give ear to my word.

10 In days upon a year, you will tremble, O secure ones; for the vintage has ended; the harvest will not come.

11 Tremble, O ones at ease; quake, O secure ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and gird upon your loins.

12 For breasts they are lamenting over the fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,

13 over the land of my people where thorns and briers come up; yes, over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city.

14 For the palace will be forsaken, the clamor of the city will be forsaken, and the citadel and watchtower will become as dens even to forever—the joy of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks—

15 until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high and the wilderness becomes as a fertile field and the fertile field is considered as a forest.