Isaiah 32 For behold a righteous king shall reign and chiefs shall rule with justice.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ For behold a righteous king shall reign and chiefs shall rule with justice. ² And this man will be one who hideth his words, and he will be hid as from a rolling flood. And he will be seen on Sion like a glorious stream in a thirsty land. ³ And they shall no more put confidence in men; but shall apply their ears to hear. ⁴ And the heart of the weak will listen attentively; and trifling tongues will soon learn to speak peace. ⁵ And they will no more order the fool to govern, nor shall thy servants any more command silence. ⁶ For the fool will speak foolishly, and his heart will devise vain things; that he may commit iniquity, and utter error before the Lord in order to scatter hungry souls: and the thirsty souls he will send away empty. ⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise unlawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment. ⁸ But the pious have counselled with understanding; and their counsel shall be established." ⁹ [p] Arise ye rich women and hear my voice, hearken to my words ye daughters of hope! ¹⁰ make mention of a day of a year in sorrow, with hope. The vintage is destroyed; it hath failed! must it never come again any more? ¹¹ Be confounded; be grieved, ye confident women! strip; make yourselves bare; gird your loins ¹² and beat your breasts, for the lovely field; for the fruitful vine. ¹³ In this land of my people shall spring up the thorn and the briar, and joy shall be taken from every dwelling. ¹⁴ O rich city! houses wholly forsaken! They shall abandon city, riches, lovely houses; and until the age the villages shall be dens; the joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks, ¹⁵ till a spirit come on you from on high. Then will a desert become a Channel and Channel will be accounted a forest; ¹⁶ and judgment will make a lasting abode in the desert, and righteousness will dwell in Channel. ¹⁷ And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall enjoy rest. As for them who have kept up their confidence till that age; ¹⁸ his people shall then inhabit a city of peace and dwell secure, and they shall enjoy rest with riches. ¹⁹ Though the hail descend, it shall not reach you: and they who dwell in the forest shall be secure as they in the plain. [c] Happy they who sow on every water where the ox and the ass treadeth!