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| 32:1 |
See, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
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| 32:2 |
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
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| 32:3 |
Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed, and the ears of those who have hearing will listen.
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| 32:4 |
The minds of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
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| 32:5 |
A fool will no longer be called noble, nor a villain said to be honorable.
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| 32:6 |
For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
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| 32:7 |
The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
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| 32:8 |
But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.
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| 32:9 |
Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.
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| 32:10 |
In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent ones; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.
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| 32:11 |
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your loins.
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| 32:12 |
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
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| 32:13 |
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.
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| 32:14 |
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;
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| 32:15 |
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.
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| 32:16 |
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
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| 32:17 |
The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
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| 32:18 |
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
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| 32:19 |
The forest will disappear completely, and the city will be utterly laid low.
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| 32:20 |
Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.
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