Isaiah 32

¹ Behold! For justice, a king shall reign, and chiefs for judgment shall control. ² And a man becomes as a hiding place from the wind, and a concealment from the storm, as rillets of water in an arid place, as the shadow of a massive crag in a faint-making desert land. ³ And the eyes of the seers shall not squint, and the ears of the hearers shall be attentive, ⁴ and the heart of the hasty shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall hasten to speak elegancies. ⁵ And no longer shall the decadent be called a patron, nor to a miser shall be said, "saviour". ⁶ For the decadent is speaking decadence, and his heart is devising lawlessness, to execute pollution, and to speak, as to Yahweh, what leads astray, to empty the soul of the famished, and the drink of the thirsty he causes to be lacking. ⁷ And the miser's instruments are evil, and he plans counsels to harm the humble with false sayings, and frustrate the words of the needy, in judgment. ⁸ Yet the patron counsels willingness, and he, in the willingness, is confirmed. ⁹ Tranquil women, rise and hear My voice! Trusting daughters, give ear to My sayings! ¹⁰ In days over a year shall you be disturbed, trusting women, for vanish will the vintage, the gathering will fail to come in. ¹¹ Tremble, tranquil women! Be disturbed, trusting women! Strip and be naked, with a girdle skirt on the loins! ¹² Beat in wailing on the breasts, over the coveted fields, over the fruitful vine, ¹³ over the ground of My people where thorn and buckthorn are coming up, over all the houses of elation, of the joyous town. ¹⁴ For the citadel shall be abandoned. The throng of the city shall forsake it. The hump and lookout become caves, in the future, till the eon; an elation of wild asses, a pasture for droves, ¹⁵ till emptied on us shall be the spirit from the height. Then the wilderness will come to be for crop land, and the crop land for wildwood will be accounted. ¹⁶ And judgment will tabernacle in the wilderness, and righteousness in the crop land shall dwell. ¹⁷ And it comes that the yield of righteousness shall be welfare, and the service of righteousness, quietness and trust till the eon. ¹⁸ And My people shall dwell in a homestead of welfare, and in tabernacles of trust, and in tranquil resting places, ¹⁹ and hail, in descending, comes not on you, but the wildwood. And in the low foothills shall the city lie low. ²⁰ Happiness is yours who sow by all waters, where you are sending the foot of the bull and the ass.