Isaiah 32:12-20

Modern English Version

¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
¹³ for the land of my people
    in which thorns and briers shall come up,
yes, for all the joyful houses
    and for the jubilant city;
¹⁴ because the palaces have been forsaken,
    the populated city is forsaken.
The forts and towers shall be caves forever,
    a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
¹⁵ until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
    and the wilderness is a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

¹⁶ Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness,
    and righteousness will abide in the fruitful field.
¹⁷ The work of righteousness shall be peace,
    and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
¹⁸ My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation
    and in secure dwellings
    and in quiet resting places;
¹⁹ and it shall hail when the forest comes down,
    and the city shall be utterly laid low.
²⁰ How blessed are you
    who sow beside all waters,
    who send out freely the ox and the donkey.