Isaiah, 32

1. There will be a king who reigns uprightly and princes who rule with fair judgement;

1. Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

2. each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams on arid ground, like the shade of a solid rock in a desolate land.

2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

3. The eyes of seers will no longer be closed, the ears of hearers will be alert,

3. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4. the heart of the hasty will learn to think things over, and the tongue of stammerers will speak promptly and clearly.

4. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

5. The fool will no longer be called generous, nor the rascal be styled bountiful.

5. The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.

6. For the fool speaks folly and his heart is set on villainy; he is godless in his actions and his words ascribe error to Yahweh; he starves the hungry of their food and refuses drink to the thirsty.

6. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7. Everything to do with the rascal is evil, he devises infamous plans to ruin the poor with lying words even when the needy has right on his side;

7. The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

8. but the noble person plans only noble things, noble his every move.

8. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

9. Stand up, you haughty women, listen to my words; you over-confident daughters, pay attention to what I say.

9. Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

10. Within one year and a few days you will tremble, you over-confident women; grape-harvesting will be finished, gathering will never happen again.

10. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

11. Shudder, you haughty women, tremble, you over-confident women; strip, undress, put sackcloth round your waists.

11. Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.

12. Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

12. They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13. for my people's soil where the bramble-bush will be growing and for all the happy houses, for the rejoicing city.

13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:

14. For the citadel will be abandoned and the thronged city deserted, Ophel and the Keep will be denuded for ever, the playground of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,

14. Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

15. until the spirit is poured out on us from above, and the desert becomes an orchard, and an orchard that seems like a forest.

15. Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

16. Fair judgement will fix its home in the desert, and uprightness live in this orchard,

16. Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17. and the product of uprightness will be peace, the effect of uprightness being quiet and security for ever.

17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

18. My people will live in a peaceful home, in peaceful houses, tranquil dwellings.

18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

19. And should the forest be totally destroyed and the city gravely humiliated,

19. When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

20. You will be happy to sow wherever there is water and to let the ox and donkey roam free.

20. Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.