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Chapter 32 |
| 1 | Behold, a king
shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. |
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And a man shall be as an 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. |
| 4 | 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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5 | The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor
the churl said to be bountiful. |
| 6 | For the vile person will speak
villany, 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. |
| 7 | 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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8 | But the liberal deviseth
liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. |
| 9 | Rise up, ye
women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my
speech. |
| 10
| Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. |
| 11 |
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you,
and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. |
| 12 | They shall
lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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| 13 | 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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14 | 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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| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | Then
judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the
fruitful field. |
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17 | And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and
the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. |
| 18 | And
my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in
quiet resting places; |
| 19 | When it shall hail, coming down on the
forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. |
| 20 | Blessed are
ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and
the ass. |
