12 Beat your breasts in mourning(A)
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,(B)
13 for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,(C)
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
15 until the Spirit from heaven is poured out on us.(D)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(E)
16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.
17 The result of righteousness will be peace;(F)
the effect of righteousness
will be quiet confidence forever.
18 Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,
in safe and secure dwellings.
19 But hail will level the forest,[a](G)
and the city will sink into the depths.(H)
20 Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;(I)
they let ox and donkey range freely.(J)

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  1. Isaiah 32:19 Hb obscure

12 mourning over breasts,
    over fields of delight,
over the fruitful vine,
13     over the soil of my people.
It goes up in thorns[a] and briers,[b]
    indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
    the crowded city[c] deserted;
the hill and the watchtower will become[d] a cave forever,
    the joy of wild asses, a pasture for[e] flocks.

15 Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high,

and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.
16 Then[f] justice will dwell in the wilderness,
    and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness will be peace,
    and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.
18 And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace
    and in a dwelling place of security
    and in undisturbed resting places.
19 And it hails when the forest comes down,[g]
    and the city will become low in humiliation.
20 Happy are you who sow by all waters,
    who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.

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  1. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “thorn”
  2. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “brier”
  3. Isaiah 32:14 Literally “crowd of the city”
  4. Isaiah 32:14 The Hebrew text has “for the benefit of” following “become”
  5. Isaiah 32:14 Literally “of”
  6. Isaiah 32:16 Or “And”
  7. Isaiah 32:19 Literally “the coming down of the forest”