Isaiah 32

₁Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. ₂And 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. ₃And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. ₄The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. ₅The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. ₆For 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. ₇The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. ₈But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

₉Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. ₁₀Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. ₁₁Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. ₁₂They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ₁₃Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: ₁₄because 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; ₁₅until 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.

₁₆Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. ₁₇And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. ₁₈And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; ₁₉when it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. ₂₀Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.