| 章 |
| 32:1 |
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
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| 32:2 |
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
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| 32:3 |
Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will hearken.
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| 32:4 |
The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
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| 32:5 |
The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.
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| 32:6 |
For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
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| 32:7 |
The knaveries of the knave are evil;he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
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| 32:8 |
But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands.
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| 32:9 |
Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
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| 32:10 |
In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women;for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.
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| 32:11 |
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones;strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
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| 32:12 |
Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
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| 32:13 |
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers;yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
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| 32:14 |
For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted;the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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| 32:15 |
until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
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| 32:16 |
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
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| 32:17 |
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.
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| 32:18 |
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
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| 32:19 |
And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
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| 32:20 |
Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.
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