Isaiah 32

1 There! for righteousness he will reign a king and to rulers for justice they will rule.

Watch! A king is coming who does what's right when he rules, and those who rule under him will act fairly.

2 And he will be each like a hiding place of a wind and a shelter of a rainstorm like streams of water in a dry land like [the] shadow of a rock heavy in a land weary.

Each one will be like a shelter from the wind, like a protection from the storm, like rivers of water in the dry desert, like the shade of a large rock in a sun-baked land.

3 And not they will gaze [the] eyes of [those who] see and [the] ears of [those who] hear they will pay attention.

Then everyone with eyes will be able to truly see, and everyone who has ears will be able to truly hear.

4 And [the] heart of hasty [people] it will understand knowledge and [the] tongue of stammerers it will hasten to speak clearly.

Those whose minds are impulsive will be sensible and think things through; those who stammer will speak clearly.

5 Not it will be called again to a fool noble and of a scoundrel not it will be said eminent person.

No longer will fools be called respectable or crooks highly-regarded.

6 For a fool folly he speaks and heart his it does wickedness by doing godlessness and by speaking concerning Yahweh error by keeping empty [the] appetite of [the] hungry and drink [the] thirsty he deprives.

For fools only talk foolishness, thinking evil things. They act in opposition to the Lord, misrepresenting him in what they say. They refuse to give food to the hungry and deny water to the thirsty.

7 And a scoundrel weapons his [are] evil he evil purposes he plans to ruin (afflicted [people] *Q(K)*) with words of falsehood and when speaks [the] needy justice.

Cheats use evil methods; they devise schemes to ruin the poor with lies, even when right is on the side of the poor.

8 And a noble [person] noble deeds he plans and he on noble deeds he stands.

But noble people act unselfishly; they keep to their principles of generosity.

9 O women carefree arise hear voice my O daughters confident give ear to utterance my.

Get up, you women who are lying around relaxing, and pay attention to what I'm saying! You ladies without a care in the world, listen to me!

10 Days with a year you will be agitated O confident [women] for it will fail [the] grape harvest [the] gathering not it will come.

In just over a year, you who think yourselves so safe will tremble with fear. The grape harvest is going to fail and there'll be no harvest.

11 Tremble O carefree [women] be agitated O confident [women] strip off and strip yourself and gird on loins.

Shudder, you women relaxing! Tremble, you ladies who feel so safe! Strip off your clothes, bare yourselves and put on sackcloth around your waists.

12 On breasts mourning on fields of delight on vine[s] fruitful.

Beat your breasts in sadness over the loss of your lovely fields, your productive vines,

13 On [the] land of people my thornbush[es] thorn[s] it will grow up for on all [the] houses of joy a town jubilant.

over the loss of the land of my people. Mourn because it's now overgrown with thorns and brambles, mourn because of the loss of all the happy homes and joyful towns.

14 For [the] palace it will be forsaken [the] tumult of [the] city it will be abandoned [the] hill and [the] watchtower it will become behind caves until perpetuity a joy of wild donkeys a pasture of flocks.

The palace is abandoned, the crowded town is deserted. Castles and watch towers will forever become homes loved by wild donkeys, and places where sheep graze,

15 Until it will be poured out on us spirit from a high place and it will become [the] wilderness orchard (and the orchard *Q(K)*) to forest it will be considered.

until the Spirit is poured out on us from above, and the desert becomes like a good field full of crops, and a good field will grow like a forest.

16 And it will dwell in the wilderness justice and righteousness in the orchard it will remain.

Then people living in the desert will practice justice, and those living among the fields will do what is right.

17 And it will be [the] work of righteousness peace and [the] labor of righteousness [will be] quietness and security until perpetuity.

Living right will bring peace and security that endures.

18 And it will dwell people my in a habitation of peace and in dwelling places of security and in resting places undisturbed.

My people will live in peace, safe and secure in their homes.

19 And it will hail when comes down the forest and with lowness it will become low the city.

Even though hail can destroy a forest, and a town can be demolished,

20 How blessed [are]! you O [those who] sow at every water O [those who] let loose [the] foot of the ox and the donkey.

you will be happy as you sow your crops beside the waters and let your cattle and donkeys roam freely.