Read Isaiah 32

World English Bible · 20 verses

1. ¹ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org