Isaiah 32 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

A King Will Reign in Righteousness

Isa 32:1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.

Isa 32:2Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

Isa 32:3

Isa 32:3Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention.

Isa 32:4

Isa 32:4The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.

Isa 32:5

Isa 32:5The fool will no more be called noble,
nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.

Isa 32:6

Isa 32:6For the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the LORD,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Isa 32:7

Isa 32:7As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isa 32:8

Isa 32:8But he who is noble plans noble things,
and on noble things he stands.

Complacent Women Warned of Disaster

Isa 32:9

Isa 32:9Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

Isa 32:10

Isa 32:10In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
the fruit harvest will not come.

Isa 32:11

Isa 32:11Tremble, you women who are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
strip, and make yourselves bare,
and tie sackcloth around your waist.

Isa 32:12

Isa 32:12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,

Isa 32:13

Isa 32:13for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.

Isa 32:14

Isa 32:14For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;

Isa 32:15

Isa 32:15until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

Isa 32:16

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

Isa 32:17

Isa 32:17And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust[fn] forever.

Isa 32:18

Isa 32:18My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Isa 32:19

Isa 32:19And it will hail when the forest falls down,
and the city will be utterly laid low.

Isa 32:20

Isa 32:20Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

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