< Isaiah 32 >
1 look! to/for righteousness to reign king and to/for ruler to/for justice to rule
Listen to this! Some day there will be a righteous king, and his officials will help him to rule justly/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 [of them] will be like [MET] a shelter from the wind and a (refuge/place to be protected) from the storm. They will be like [SIM] streams of water in the desert, like the shade under a huge rock in a very hot and dry land.
3 and not to gaze eye to see: see and ear to hear: hear to listen
When that happens, [those leaders will enable] people who have not understood [MET] [God’s truth] to understand it, and [they will enable] those who have not paid attention to [MET] [God’s truth] to pay attention to it.
4 and heart to hasten to understand to/for knowledge and tongue stammerer to hasten to/for to speak: speak dazzling
[Even] those who act very hastily will have good sense, and those who cannot speak well will speak fluently and clearly.
5 not to call: call by still to/for foolish noble and to/for rogue not to say rich
[At that time], people who are foolish/unwise will no longer be (admired/looked up to), and scoundrels will no longer be respected.
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
Foolish people say things that are foolish, and they plan to do evil things. Their behavior is disgraceful, and they say things about Yahweh that are false. They do not give food to those who are hungry, and they do not give water to those who are 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
Scoundrels do things that are evil and that deceive people; they plan to do evil things; by telling lies [in court] they cause poor people to (have trouble/be convicted), even when what the poor [people] are requesting is fair/just.
8 and noble noble to advise and he/she/it upon noble to arise: establish
But honorable people plan to do honorable/good things, and they do the honorable/good things that they plan to do.
9 woman secure to arise: rise to hear: hear voice my daughter to trust to listen word my
You women [of Jerusalem] who think that you are very secure/safe and think that everything is going well, listen to [IDM] what I say!
10 day upon year to tremble to trust for to end: expend vintage gathering without to come (in): come
One year from now, you who now (are not worried about anything/think that everything is going well) will tremble, because there will be no grapes for you to harvest and no [other] crops to harvest.
11 to tremble secure to tremble to trust to strip and to strip and to gird upon loin
[So] tremble [now], you women who are not worried about anything! Take off your [fancy] clothes and put rough sackcloth around your waists.
12 upon breast to mourn upon land: country delight upon vine be fruitful
Beat/Hit your breasts to show that you are grieving about [what will happen in] your fertile fields and to your fruitful grapevines,
13 upon land: soil people my thorn thorn to ascend: rise for upon all house: household rejoicing town jubilant
because [only] thorns and thistles will grow in your soil. Your houses where you had joyful parties and your city where you have been happy will be gone.
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 [king’s] palace will be empty; there will be no people in the city that [now] is very noisy. Wild donkeys will walk around and flocks of sheep will eat grass in the empty forts and watchtowers.
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
[It will be like that] until God pours his Spirit out on us from heaven. [When that happens], the deserts will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fertile fields.
16 and to dwell in/on/with wilderness justice and righteousness in/on/with plantation to dwell
People [PRS] will act/rule justly/fairly in those desert areas, and people will act/rule righteously in those fertile fields.
17 and to be deed [the] righteousness peace and service: work [the] righteousness to quiet and security till forever: enduring
And the result of their acting righteously will be that there will be peace, the land will be tranquil/quiet, and people will be secure/safe forever.
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 their homes peacefully, and safely, and calmly, in places of rest.
19 and to hail in/on/with to go down [the] wood and in/on/with humiliation to abase [the] city
[Even if a severe] hailstorm knocks down [the trees in] the forest, and [all the buildings in] the city are blown down,
20 blessed you to sow upon all water to send: let go foot [the] cattle and [the] donkey
Yahweh [will greatly] bless you; you will plant [seeds in fields] alongside the streams [and there will be abundant crops]. Your donkeys and cattle will easily find grass to eat.