Isaiah 32

1 look! to/for righteousness to reign king and to/for ruler to/for justice to 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 to be man: anyone like/as hiding-place spirit: breath and secrecy storm like/as stream water in/on/with dryness like/as shadow crag heavy in/on/with land: country/planet faint

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 to gaze eye to see: see and ear to hear: hear to listen

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

4 and heart to hasten to understand to/for knowledge and tongue stammerer to hasten to/for to speak: speak dazzling

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

5 not to call: call by still to/for foolish noble and to/for rogue not to say rich

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

6 for foolish folly to speak: speak and heart his to make: do evil: wickedness to/for to make: do profaneness and to/for to speak: speak to(wards) LORD error to/for to empty soul: appetite hungry and irrigation thirsty to lack

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 rogue article/utensil his bad: evil he/she/it wickedness to advise to/for to destroy (afflicted *Q(K)*) in/on/with word deception and in/on/with to speak: speak 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 noble noble to advise and he/she/it upon noble to arise: establish

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

9 woman secure to arise: rise to hear: hear voice my daughter to trust to listen word 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 day upon year to tremble to trust for to end: expend vintage gathering without to come (in): 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 to tremble secure to tremble to trust to strip and to strip and to gird upon loin

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 upon breast to mourn upon land: country delight upon vine be fruitful

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

13 upon land: soil people my thorn thorn to ascend: rise for upon all house: household rejoicing 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 citadel: palace to leave crowd city to leave: forsake hill and watchtower to be about/through/for cave till forever: enduring rejoicing wild donkey pasture flock

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 till to uncover upon us spirit from height and to be wilderness to/for plantation (and [the] plantation *Q(K)*) to/for wood to devise: think

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 to dwell in/on/with wilderness justice and righteousness in/on/with plantation to dwell

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

17 and to be deed [the] righteousness peace and service: work [the] righteousness to quiet and security till forever: enduring

Living right will bring peace and security that endures.

18 and to dwell people my in/on/with pasture peace and in/on/with tabernacle confidence and in/on/with resting secure

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

19 and to hail in/on/with to go down [the] wood and in/on/with humiliation to abase [the] city

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

20 blessed you to sow upon all water to send: let go foot [the] cattle and [the] donkey

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