Isaiah 32 : 1 (NET)
Look, a king will promote fairness; officials will promote justice.
Isaiah 32 : 2 (NET)
Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.
Isaiah 32 : 3 (NET)
Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.
Isaiah 32 : 4 (NET)
The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.
Isaiah 32 : 5 (NET)
A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.
Isaiah 32 : 6 (NET)
For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.
Isaiah 32 : 7 (NET)
A deceiver's methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
Isaiah 32 : 8 (NET)
An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.
Isaiah 32 : 9 (NET)
You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!
Isaiah 32 : 10 (NET)
In a year's time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
Isaiah 32 : 11 (NET)
Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves� put sackcloth on your waist!
Isaiah 32 : 12 (NET)
Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!
Isaiah 32 : 13 (NET)
Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
Isaiah 32 : 14 (NET)
For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.
Isaiah 32 : 15 (NET)
This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.
Isaiah 32 : 16 (NET)
Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.
Isaiah 32 : 17 (NET)
Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.
Isaiah 32 : 18 (NET)
My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.
Isaiah 32 : 19 (NET)
Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,
Isaiah 32 : 20 (NET)
you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
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