Isaiah:32-34

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* Behold , a king shall reign in righteousness , and princes shall rule in judgment . * 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 . * And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim , and the ears of them that hear shall hearken . * The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge , and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly . * The vile person shall be no more called liberal , nor the churl said to be bountiful . * 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 . * 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 . * But the liberal deviseth liberal things ; and by liberal things shall he stand . * Rise up , ye women that are at ease ; hear my voice , ye careless daughters ; give ear unto my speech . * Many days and years shall ye be troubled , ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail , the gathering shall not come . * Tremble , ye women that are at ease ; be troubled , ye careless ones : strip you , and make you bare , and gird sackcloth upon your loins . * They shall lament for the teats , for the pleasant fields , for the fruitful vine . * Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea , upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city : * 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 ; * 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 . * Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness , and righteousness remain in the fruitful field . * And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever . * And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation , and in sure dwellings , and in quiet resting places ; * When it shall hail , coming down on the forest ; and the city shall be low in a low place . * Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters , that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass . * Woe to thee that spoilest , and thou wast not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously , and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! when thou shalt cease to spoil , thou shalt be spoiled ; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously , they shall deal treacherously with thee . * O LORD , be gracious unto us ; we have waited for thee : be thou their arm every morning , our salvation also in the time of trouble . * At the noise of the tumult the people fled ; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered . * And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller : as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them . * The LORD is exalted ; for he dwelleth on high : he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness . * And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times , and strength of salvation : the fear of the LORD is his treasure . * Behold , their valiant ones shall cry without : the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly . * The highways lie waste , the wayfaring man ceaseth : he hath broken the covenant , he hath despised the cities , he regardeth no man . * The earth mourneth and languisheth : Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down : Sharon is like a wilderness ; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits . * Now will I rise , saith the LORD ; now will I be exalted ; now will I lift up myself . * Ye shall conceive chaff , ye shall bring forth stubble : your breath , as fire , shall devour you . * And the people shall be as the burnings of lime : as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire . * Hear , ye that are far off , what I have done ; and , ye that are near , acknowledge my might . * The sinners in Zion are afraid ; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites . Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire ? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings ? * He that walketh righteously , and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions , that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes , that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood , and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; * He shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks : bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure . * Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is very far off . * Thine heart shall meditate terror . Where is the scribe ? where is the receiver ? where is he that counted the towers ? * Thou shalt not see a fierce people , a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive ; of a stammering tongue , that thou canst not understand . * Look upon Zion , the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation , a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed , neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken . * But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams ; wherein shall go no galley with oars , neither shall gallant ship pass thereby . * For the LORD is our judge , the LORD is our lawgiver , the LORD is our king ; he will save us . * Thy tacklings are loosed ; they could not well strengthen their mast , they could not spread the sail : then is the prey of a great spoil divided ; the lame take the prey . * And the inhabitant shall not say , I am sick : the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity . * Come near , ye nations , to hear ; and hearken , ye people : let the earth hear , and all that is therein ; the world , and all things that come forth of it . * For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations , and his fury upon all their armies : he hath utterly destroyed them , he hath delivered them to the slaughter . * Their slain also shall be cast out , and their stink shall come up out of their carcases , and the mountains shall be melted with their blood . * And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll : and all their host shall fall down , as the leaf falleth off from the vine , and as a falling fig from the fig tree . * For my sword shall be bathed in heaven : behold , it shall come down upon Idumea , and upon the people of my curse , to judgment . * The sword of the LORD is filled with blood , it is made fat with fatness , and with the blood of lambs and goats , with the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah , and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea . * And the unicorns shall come down with them , and the bullocks with the bulls ; and their land shall be soaked with blood , and their dust made fat with fatness . * For it is the day of the LORD 'S vengeance , and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion . * And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch , and the dust thereof into brimstone , and the land thereof shall become burning pitch . * It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever . * But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion , and the stones of emptiness . * They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom , but none shall be there , and all her princes shall be nothing . * And thorns shall come up in her palaces , nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof : and it shall be an habitation of dragons , and a court for owls . * The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island , and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech owl also shall rest there , and find for herself a place of rest . * There shall the great owl make her nest , and lay , and hatch , and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered , every one with her mate . * Seek ye out of the book of the LORD , and read : no one of these shall fail , none shall want her mate : for my mouth it hath commanded , and his spirit it hath gathered them . * And he hath cast the lot for them , and his hand hath divided it unto them by line : they shall possess it for ever , from generation to generation shall they dwell therein . * The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them ; and the desert shall rejoice , and blossom as the rose .

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