LEB - Isaiah - 32

32:1  See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice.

32:2  And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

32:3  And the eyes of those who see will not gaze, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

32:4  And the ⌞minds⌟ of the rash will understand ⌞knowledge⌟, and the tongues of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

32:5  A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said to be eminent.

32:6  For a fool speaks folly, and his ⌞mind⌟ does iniquity: to ⌞behave wickedly⌟, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave the throat of the hungry empty, and he deprives the thirsty of drink.

32:7  And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception even when the speech of the needy is right.

32:8  But the nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things.

32:9  Women who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word!

32:10  ⌞In a year⌟ you will tremble, carefree ones, for the vintage will come to an end; the harvest will not come.

32:11  Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins,

32:12  mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,

32:13  over the soil of my people. It goes up in thorns and briers, indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.

32:14  For the palace will be forsaken, the ⌞crowded city⌟ deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become a cave forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture ⌞for⌟ flocks.

32:15  Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.

32:16  Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.

32:17  And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.

32:18  And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.

32:19  And it hails when ⌞the forest comes down⌟, and the city will become low in humiliation.

32:20  Happy are you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.