Isaiah 32
The Righteous
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Behold, a King shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
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And a man shall be as a 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.
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And the eyes of them that see shall not
be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
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The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be
ready to speak plainly.
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The vile person shall be no more called
liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
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For the vile person will speak villainy,
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.
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The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with
lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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But the liberal deviseth liberal things;
and by liberal things shall he stand.
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Women of Jerusalem
Warned |
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Rise up, ye women that are at ease;
hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my
speech.
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Many days and years shall ye be troubled,
ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come.
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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be
troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
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They shall lament for the teats, for the
pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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Upon the land of my people shall come up
thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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because 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;
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until 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.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the
wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful
field.
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And the work of righteousness shall be
peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for
ever.
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And my people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting
places;
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when it shall hail, coming down on the
forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
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Blessed are ye that sow beside all
waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the
ass.
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