| Chapter
32 |
| 1 |
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgment. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 13 | Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: |
| 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; |
|
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. |
| 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. |
