Isaiah 32

1 look! to/for righteousness to reign king and to/for ruler to/for justice to rule

Behold, a king reigns for righteousness, As for princes, they rule for judgment.

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

And each has been as a hiding place [from] wind, And as a secret hiding place [from] inundation, As streams of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

3 and not to gaze eye to see: see and ear to hear: hear to listen

And the eyes of beholders are not dazzled, And the ears of hearers attend.

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

And the heart of those hurried understands to know, And the tongue of stammerers hurries to speak clearly.

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

A fool is no more called “noble,” And to a miser it is not said, “rich”;

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 a fool speaks folly, And his heart does iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak error concerning YHWH, To empty the soul of the hungry, Indeed, he causes the thirsty to lack [their] drink.

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

And the miser—his instruments [are] evil, He has counseled wicked schemes, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaks justly.

8 and noble noble to advise and he/she/it upon noble to arise: establish

And the noble counseled noble things, And he rises up for noble things.

9 woman secure to arise: rise to hear: hear voice my daughter to trust to listen word my

Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear [to] my saying,

10 day upon year to tremble to trust for to end: expend vintage gathering without to come (in): come

In days and a year You are troubled, O confident ones, For harvest has been consumed, The gathering does not come.

11 to tremble secure to tremble to trust to strip and to strip and to gird upon loin

Tremble, you women, you easy ones, Be troubled, you confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

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

They are lamenting for breasts, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

13 upon land: soil people my thorn thorn to ascend: rise for upon all house: household rejoicing town jubilant

Over the ground of my people thorn [and] brier go up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

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 has been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watchtower have been for dens for all time, A joy of wild donkeys—a pasture of herds;

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 emptied out on us from on high, And a wilderness has become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is reckoned for a forest.

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

And judgment has dwelt in the wilderness, And righteousness remains in the fruitful field.

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

And a work of the righteousness has been peace, And a service of the righteousness—Keeping quiet and confidence for all time.

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

And My people have dwelt in a peaceful habitation, And in steadfast dwelling places, And in quiet resting places.

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

And it has hailed in the going down of the forest, And the city is low in the valley.

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

Blessed [are] you sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the donkey!