Isaiah 32:12-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,[a]
for the fruitful vine,(A)
13 for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the jubilant city.(B)
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
the joy of wild asses,
a pasture for flocks;(C)
15 until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.(D)
The Peace of God’s Reign
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.(E)
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.(F)
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
19 The forest will disappear completely,[b]
and the city will be utterly laid low.(G)
20 Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,
who let the ox and the donkey range freely.(H)
Isaiah 32:12-20
International Standard Version
12 For people will be beating their breasts
in mourning[a] over the pleasant fields,
over the fruitful vines,
13 and over the land of my people
overgrown with thorns and[b] briers—
yes, over all the houses of merriment
and over this city of revelry.
14 “For the palace will be abandoned,
the noisy city deserted;
the citadel and watchtower
will become barren wastes forever,
the delight of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for[c] flocks,
15 until the Spirit from on high is poured upon us,
and the desert becomes a fertile field,
and the fertile field seems like a forest.”
Restoration of God’s Reign
16 “Then justice will live in the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.
18 My people will live in peaceful dwellings,
in secure homes and in undisturbed resting places.
19 But it will hail when the forest comes down,
and the wood[d] will be leveled completely.
20 How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream,
and[e] letting your[f] cattle and donkeys range freely!”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 32:12 1QIsaa MT lack mourning
- Isaiah 32:13 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 32:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads of; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 32:19 So 1QIsaa; MT reads the city; LXX lacks the wood
- Isaiah 32:20 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 32:20 Lit. letting the feet of your
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