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Isaiah 32:3-8
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3 Eyes[a] will no longer be blind[b]
and ears[c] will be attentive.
4 The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment,[d]
and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.
5 A fool will no longer be called honorable;
a deceiver will no longer be called principled.
6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things;[e]
his mind plans out sinful deeds.[f]
He commits godless deeds[g]
and says misleading things about the Lord;
he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite[h]
and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.[i]
7 A deceiver’s methods are evil;[j]
he dreams up evil plans[k]
to ruin the poor with lies,
even when the needy are in the right.[l]
8 An honorable man makes honorable plans;
his honorable character gives him security.[m]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:3 tn Heb “Eyes that see.”
  2. Isaiah 32:3 tn The Hebrew text as vocalized reads literally “will not gaze,” but this is contradictory to the context. The verb form should be revocalized as תְּשֹׁעֶינָה (teshoʿenah) from שָׁעַע (shʿaʿa, “be blinded”); see Isa 6:10; 29:9.
  3. Isaiah 32:3 tn Heb “ears that hear.”
  4. Isaiah 32:4 tn Heb “the heart of rashness will understand knowledge”; cf. NAB “The flighty will become wise and capable.”
  5. Isaiah 32:6 tn Or “foolishness,” in a moral-ethical sense. See 9:17.
  6. Isaiah 32:6 tn Heb “and his heart commits sin”; KJV, ASV “his heart will work iniquity”; NASB “inclines toward wickedness.”
  7. Isaiah 32:6 tn Heb “in order to do [or “so that he does”] what is godless [or “defiled”].”
  8. Isaiah 32:6 tn Heb “so that he leaves empty the appetite [or “desire”] of the hungry.”
  9. Isaiah 32:6 tn Heb “and the drink of the thirsty he causes to fail.”
  10. Isaiah 32:7 tn Heb “as for a deceiver, his implements [or “weapons”] are evil.”
  11. Isaiah 32:7 tn Or “he plans evil things”; NIV “he makes up evil schemes.”
  12. Isaiah 32:7 tn Heb “to ruin the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speak what is just.”
  13. Isaiah 32:8 tn Heb “and he upon honorable things stands.”
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Isaiah 32:3-8
American Standard Version

3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be [a]dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 And the heart of the [b]rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5 The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the [c]churl said to be bountiful. 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the [d]meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and [e]in noble things shall he continue.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:3 Or, closed
  2. Isaiah 32:4 Hebrew hasty.
  3. Isaiah 32:5 Or, crafty
  4. Isaiah 32:7 Or, poor
  5. Isaiah 32:8 Or, by liberal things shall he stand
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