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The
Kingdom of Righteousness
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry
place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and
the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor
the churl said to be bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart
will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter
error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he
deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying
words, even when the needy speaketh right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by
liberal things shall he stand.
The Women of Jerusalem
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not
come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird
sackcloth upon your loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant
fields, for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude
of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for
dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and
the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
be counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,
and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and
the city shall be low in a low place.
32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send
forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. |
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