32 Behold, a ^[a]King will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.

² And each one of them shall be like a hiding place from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land [to those who turn to them].

³ Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed or dimmed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

⁴ And the mind of the rash will understand knowledge and have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and plainly.

⁵ The fool (the unbeliever and the ungodly) will no more be called noble, nor the crafty and greedy [for gain] said to be bountiful and princely.

⁶ For the fool speaks folly and his mind plans iniquity: practicing profane ungodliness and speaking error concerning the Lord, leaving the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and causing the drink of the thirsty to fail.

⁷ The instruments and methods of the fraudulent and greedy [for gain] are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor and the lowly with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is just and right.

⁸ But the noble, openhearted, and liberal man devises noble things; and he stands for what is noble, openhearted, and generous.

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my [Isaiah’s] voice, you confident and careless daughters! Listen to what I am saying!

¹⁰ In little more than a year you will be shaken with anxiety, you careless and complacent women; for the vintage will fail, and the ingathering will not come.

¹¹ Tremble, you women who are at ease! Shudder with fear, you complacent ones! Strip yourselves bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins [in grief]!

¹² They shall beat upon their breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

¹³ For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briers—yes, for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

¹⁴ For the palace shall be forsaken, the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watchtower shall become dens [for wild animals] endlessly, a joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

¹⁵ Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is valued as a forest.^(A)

¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) will abide in the fruitful field.

¹⁷ And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external], and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.

¹⁸ My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ But it [the wrath of the Lord] shall hail, coming down overpoweringly on the forest [the army of the Assyrians], and the capital ^[b]city shall be utterly humbled and laid prostrate.

²⁰ Happy and fortunate are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks; for the seed will sink into the mud and when the waters subside, the plant will spring up; you will find it after many days and reap an abundant harvest], you who safely send forth the ox and the donkey [to range freely].

33 Woe to you, O destroyer, you who were not yourself destroyed, who deal treacherously though they [your victims] did not deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.

² O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited [expectantly] for You. Be the arm [of Your servants—their strength and defense] every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

³ At the noise of the tumult [caused by Your voice at which the enemy is overthrown], the peoples flee; at the lifting up of Yourself, nations are scattered.

⁴ And the spoil [of the Assyrians] is gathered [by the inhabitants of Jerusalem] as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap and run to and fro, so [the Jews spoil the Assyrians’ forsaken camp as they] leap upon it.

⁵ The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation).

⁶ And there shall be stability in your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the reverent fear and worship of the Lord is your treasure and His.

⁷ Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

⁸ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. The enemy has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities and ^[c]the witnesses, he regards no man.

⁹ The land mourns and languishes, Lebanon is confounded and [its luxuriant verdure] withers away; Sharon [a fertile pasture region south of Mount Carmel] is like a desert, and Bashan [a broad, fertile plateau east of the Jordan River] and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

¹⁰ Now will I arise, says the Lord. Now will I lift up Myself; now will I be exalted.

¹¹ You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that consumes you.

¹² And the people will be burned as if to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.

¹³ Hear, you who are far off [says the Lord], what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge My might!

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling seizes the godless ones. [They cry] Who among us can dwell with that devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with those everlasting burnings?

¹⁵ He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises gain from fraud and from oppression, who shakes his hand free from the taking of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil.

¹⁶ [Such a man] will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; water for him will be sure.

¹⁷ Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; [your eyes] will behold a land of wide distances that stretches afar.

¹⁸ Your mind will meditate on the terror: [asking] Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?

¹⁹ You will see no more the fierce and insolent people, a people of a speech too deep and obscure to be comprehended, of a strange and stammering tongue that you cannot understand.

²⁰ Look upon Zion, the city of our set feasts and solemnities! Your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be pulled up, neither shall any of its cords be broken.

²¹ But there the Lord will be for us in majesty and splendor a place of broad rivers and streams, where no oar-propelled boat can go, and no mighty and stately ship can pass.

²² For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us.^(B)

²³ Your hoisting ropes hang loose; they cannot strengthen and hold firm the foot of their mast or keep the sail spread out. Then will prey and spoil in abundance be divided; even the lame will take the prey.

²⁴ And no inhabitant [of Zion] will say, I am sick; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity and guilt.

8 In those days when [again] an immense crowd had gathered and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and told them,

² I have pity and sympathy for the people and My heart goes out to them, for they have been with Me now three days and have nothing [left] to eat;

³ And if I send them away to their homes hungry, they will be feeble through exhaustion and faint along the road; and some of them have come a long way.

⁴ And His disciples replied to Him, How can anyone fill and satisfy [these people] with loaves of bread here in [this] desolate and uninhabited region?

⁵ And He asked them, How many loaves have you? They said, Seven.

⁶ And He commanded the multitude to recline upon the ground, and He [then] took the seven loaves [of bread] and, having given thanks, He broke them and kept on giving them to His disciples to put before [the people], and they placed them before the crowd.

⁷ And they had a few small fish; and when He had ^[a]praised God and given thanks and asked Him to bless them [to their use], He ordered that these also should be set before [them].

⁸ And they ate and were satisfied; and they took up seven [^[b]large provision] baskets full of the broken pieces left over.

⁹ And there were about 4,000 people. And He dismissed them,

¹⁰ And at once He got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha (or Magdala).

¹¹ The Pharisees came and began to argue with and question Him, demanding from Him a sign (an attesting miracle from heaven) [maliciously] to test Him.

¹² And He groaned and sighed deeply in His spirit and said, Why does this generation demand a sign? Positively I say to you, no sign shall be given this generation.

¹³ And He went away and left them and, getting into the boat again, He departed to the other side.

¹⁴ Now they had [^[c]completely] forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

¹⁵ And Jesus [repeatedly and expressly] charged and admonished them, saying, Look out; keep on your guard and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod ^[d]and the Herodians.

¹⁶ And they discussed it and reasoned with one another, It is because we have no bread.

¹⁷ And being aware [of it], Jesus said to them, Why are you reasoning and saying it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet discern or understand? Are your hearts in [a settled state of] hardness?^(A)

¹⁸ Having eyes, do you not see [with them], and having ears, do you not hear and perceive and understand the sense of what is said? And do you not remember?

¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many [^[e]small hand] baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve.

²⁰ And [when I broke] the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many [^[f]large provision] baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? And they said to Him, Seven.

²¹ And He ^[g]kept repeating, Do you not yet understand?

²² And they came to Bethsaida. And [people] brought to Him a blind man and begged Him to touch him.

²³ And He ^[h]caught the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands upon him, He asked him, Do you [^[i]possibly] see anything?

²⁴ And he looked up and said, I see people, but [they look] like trees, walking.

²⁵ Then He put His hands on his eyes again; and the man looked intently [that is, fixed his eyes on definite objects], and he was restored and saw everything distinctly [even what was ^[j]at a distance].

²⁶ And He sent him away to his house, telling [him], Do not [even] enter the village ^[k]or tell anyone there.

²⁷ And Jesus went on with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He asked His disciples, Who do people say that I am?

²⁸ And they answered [Him], John the Baptist; and others [say], Elijah; but others, one of the prophets.

²⁹ And He asked them, But who do you yourselves say that I am? Peter replied to Him, You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

³⁰ And He charged them sharply to tell no one about Him.

³¹ And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must of necessity suffer many things and be tested and disapproved and rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again [^[l]from death].

³² And He said this freely (frankly, plainly, and explicitly, making it unmistakable). And Peter took Him ^[m]by the hand and led Him aside and then [facing Him] began to rebuke Him.

³³ But turning around [His back to Peter] and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have a mind ^[n]intent on promoting what God wills, but what pleases men [you are not on God’s side, but that of men].

³⁴ And Jesus called [to Him] the throng with His disciples and said to them, If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and ^[o]lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [^[p]joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow ^[q]with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me].

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his [^[r]higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the ^[s]lower, natural, temporal life ^[t]which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it [his ^[u]higher, spiritual life ^[v]in the eternal kingdom of God].

³⁶ For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [^[w]in the eternal kingdom of God]?

³⁷ For what can a man give as an exchange (^[x]a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his [blessed] life [^[y]in the eternal kingdom of God]?

³⁸ For whoever ^[z]is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels.