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OEB ISA Chapter 32

ISA 32 ©

32Behold there comes a king

who will rule in a spirit of justice,

and princes who govern with equity –

2each like a shelter from the wind,

a refuge from storm of rain,

or like streamlets of water in dry parched places,

or shade of great rock in a weary land.


3Then the eyes that see will not be sealed,

and the ears that hear will not be heedless;

4the mind of the rash will judge with discernment,

the stammering tongue will be fluent and plain.

5No more will a fool be called ‘noble.’

No more will a knave be named ‘princely.’


6For the fool speaks folly for ever,

his mind evermore plots mischief;

his doings are profane,

and error he speaks of the Lord.

He leaves the hungry unsated,

and drink he withholds from the thirsty.

7The tricks of the evil are vile,

and villainies he plans –

to ruin the humble with lies,

and the poor, though his plea may be just.

8But the plans of the ‘noble’ are noble,

by nobleness he will endure.

Warning to the women

9You women who are at ease,

arise and hear my voice;

you carelessly confident daughters,

attend to what I say.

10In little more than a year

you will shudder, for all your confidence;

for the vintage will surely fail,

and the fruit will not be garnered.

11Tremble, you women at ease,

and you who are confident, shudder;

strip you, and make you bare,

gird (sackcloth) upon your loins,

12and beat upon your breasts

in lament for the pleasant fields,

and for the fruitful vines,

13and for the land of my people,

overgrown with thorns and briers.

Not a house of mirth will be left

in all the jubilant city.

14The palace will be forsaken,

the thronging city deserted;

watchtower and hill will become

an everlasting waste.

The security and prosperity of the coming days

15But yet from the heavenly height

will a spirit be poured upon us,

and the desert become like a garden,

and the garden be counted a forest.

16Then justice will dwell in the desert,

and righteousness live in the garden-land.

17Of justice the fruit will be peace,

and the outcome of righteousness safety

and quietness for ever.

18My people will dwell in the mansion of peace,

at the easeful rest in abodes secure.

19The forest will be felled,

and the city laid utterly low.

20Happy are you who may sow

in a land that is all well watered,

where oxen and asses may roam.

The present distress and the future glory of Jerusalem

The distress

ISA 32 ©

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