Isaiah 32
New Living Translation
Israel’s Ultimate Deliverance
32 Look, a righteous king is coming!
And honest princes will rule under him.
2 Each one will be like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from the storm,
like streams of water in the desert
and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.
3 Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth,
and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it.
4 Even the hotheads will be full of sense and understanding.
Those who stammer will speak out plainly.
5 In that day ungodly fools will not be heroes.
Scoundrels will not be respected.
6 For fools speak foolishness
and make evil plans.
They practice ungodliness
and spread false teachings about the Lord.
They deprive the hungry of food
and give no water to the thirsty.
7 The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil.
They plot crooked schemes.
They lie to convict the poor,
even when the cause of the poor is just.
8 But generous people plan to do what is generous,
and they stand firm in their generosity.
9 Listen, you women who lie around in ease.
Listen to me, you who are so smug.
10 In a short time—just a little more than a year—
you careless ones will suddenly begin to care.
For your fruit crops will fail,
and the harvest will never take place.
11 Tremble, you women of ease;
throw off your complacency.
Strip off your pretty clothes,
and put on burlap to show your grief.
12 Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms
and your fruitful grapevines.
13 For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
14 The palace and the city will be deserted,
and busy towns will be empty.
Wild donkeys will frolic and flocks will graze
in the empty forts[a] and watchtowers
15 until at last the Spirit is poured out
on us from heaven.
Then the wilderness will become a fertile field,
and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.
16 Justice will rule in the wilderness
and righteousness in the fertile field.
17 And this righteousness will bring peace.
Yes, it will bring quietness and confidence forever.
18 My people will live in safety, quietly at home.
They will be at rest.
19 Even if the forest should be destroyed
and the city torn down,
20 the Lord will greatly bless his people.
Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up.
Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.
Footnotes
- 32:14 Hebrew the Ophel.
Isaiah 32
Legacy Standard Bible
A King Will Reign Righteously
32 Behold, a (A)king will reign righteously
And princes will rule justly.
2 Each will be like a (B)refuge from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like [a](C)streams of water in a dry country,
Like the (D)shade of a [b]huge rock in [c]a weary land.
3 Then (E)the eyes of those who see will not be [d]blinded,
And the ears of those who hear will pay attention.
4 And the heart of the (F)hasty will discern knowledge,
And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.
5 No longer will the (G)wicked fool be called noble,
Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.
6 For a wicked fool speaks wicked folly,
And his heart (H)does wickedness:
To do (I)ungodliness and to speak error against Yahweh,
In order to (J)make the hungry person empty;
He even causes the thirsty to lack a drink.
7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He (K)counsels wicked schemes
To (L)wreak destruction on the afflicted with lying words,
(M)Even though the needy one speaks justly.
8 But (N)the noble man counsels noble plans;
And by noble plans he rises up.
9 Rise up, you (O)women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
(P)Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.
10 Within a year and a few days
You will quake, O complacent daughters;
(Q)For the grape harvest is ended,
And the fruit gathering will not come.
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
(R)Quake, you complacent daughters;
(S)Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
12 (T)Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine,
13 (U)For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up,
Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the (V)exultant city.
14 Because (W)the palace has been abandoned, the [e]populated (X)city forsaken.
[f]Hill and watchtower have become (Y)caves forever,
A joy for (Z)wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
15 Until the (AA)Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a (AB)fruitful orchard,
And the fruitful orchard is counted as a forest.
16 Then (AC)justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness will live in the fruitful orchard.
17 And the (AD)work of righteousness will be peace,
And the service of righteousness, (AE)quietness and security forever.
18 Then my people will live in a (AF)peaceful abode,
And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed (AG)resting places;
19 And it will (AH)hail when the (AI)forest comes down,
And (AJ)the city will be utterly laid low.
20 How (AK)blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who [g]let out freely the ox and the donkey.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 32:2 Lit canals
- Isaiah 32:2 Lit heavy
- Isaiah 32:2 Lit an exhausted
- Isaiah 32:3 Or turned away
- Isaiah 32:14 Lit multitude of the
- Isaiah 32:14 Or Ophel
- Isaiah 32:20 Lit send out the foot of the ox
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