Isaiah 32

1 Listen to this! Some day there will be a righteous king, and his officials will help him to rule justly/fairly.

There! for righteousness he will reign a king and to rulers for justice they will rule.

2 Each [of them] will be like [MET] a shelter from the wind and a (refuge/place to be protected) from the storm. They will be like [SIM] streams of water in the desert, like the shade under a huge rock in a very hot and dry land.

And he will be each like a hiding place of a wind and a shelter of a rainstorm like streams of water in a dry land like [the] shadow of a rock heavy in a land weary.

3 When that happens, [those leaders will enable] people who have not understood [MET] [God’s truth] to understand it, and [they will enable] those who have not paid attention to [MET] [God’s truth] to pay attention to it.

And not they will gaze [the] eyes of [those who] see and [the] ears of [those who] hear they will pay attention.

4 [Even] those who act very hastily will have good sense, and those who cannot speak well will speak fluently and clearly.

And [the] heart of hasty [people] it will understand to know and [the] tongue of stammerers it will hasten to speak clearly.

5 [At that time], people who are foolish/unwise will no longer be (admired/looked up to), and scoundrels will no longer be respected.

Not it will be called again to a fool noble and of a scoundrel not it will be said eminent person.

6 Foolish people say things that are foolish, and they plan to do evil things. Their behavior is disgraceful, and they say things about Yahweh that are false. They do not give food to those who are hungry, and they do not give water to those who are thirsty.

For a fool folly he speaks and heart his it does wickedness by doing godlessness and by speaking concerning Yahweh error by keeping empty [the] appetite of [the] hungry and drink [the] thirsty he deprives.

7 Scoundrels do things that are evil and that deceive people; they plan to do evil things; by telling lies [in court] they cause poor people to (have trouble/be convicted), even when what the poor [people] are requesting is fair/just.

And a scoundrel weapons his [are] evil he evil purposes he plans to ruin (afflicted [people] *QK) with words of falsehood and when speaks [the] needy justice.

8 But honorable people plan to do honorable/good things, and they do the honorable/good things that they plan to do.

And a noble [person] noble deeds he plans and he on noble deeds he stands.

9 You women [of Jerusalem] who think that you are very secure/safe and think that everything is going well, listen to [IDM] what I say!

O women carefree arise hear voice my O daughters confident give ear to utterance my.

10 One year from now, you who now (are not worried about anything/think that everything is going well) will tremble, because there will be no grapes for you to harvest and no [other] crops to harvest.

Days with a year you will be agitated O confident [women] for it will fail [the] grape harvest [the] gathering not it will come.

11 [So] tremble [now], you women who are not worried about anything! Take off your [fancy] clothes and put rough sackcloth around your waists.

Tremble O carefree [women] be agitated O confident [women] strip off and strip yourself and gird on loins.

12 Beat/Hit your breasts to show that you are grieving about [what will happen in] your fertile fields and to your fruitful grapevines,

On breasts mourning on fields of delight on vine[s] fruitful.

13 because [only] thorns and thistles will grow in your soil. Your houses where you had joyful parties and your city where you have been happy will be gone.

On [the] land of people my thornbush[es] thorn[s] it will grow up for on all [the] houses of joy a town jubilant.

14 The [king’s] palace will be empty; there will be no people in the city that [now] is very noisy. Wild donkeys will walk around and flocks of sheep will eat grass in the empty forts and watchtowers.

For [the] palace it will be forsaken [the] tumult of [the] city it will be abandoned [the] hill and [the] watchtower it will become behind caves until perpetuity a joy of wild donkeys a pasture of flocks.

15 [It will be like that] until God pours his Spirit out on us from heaven. [When that happens], the deserts will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fertile fields.

Until it will be poured out on us spirit from a high place and it will become [the] wilderness orchard (and the orchard *QK) to forest it will be considered.

16 People [PRS] will act/rule justly/fairly in those desert areas, and people will act/rule righteously in those fertile fields.

And it will dwell in the wilderness justice and righteousness in the orchard it will remain.

17 And the result of their acting righteously will be that there will be peace, the land will be tranquil/quiet, and people will be secure/safe forever.

And it will be [the] work of righteousness peace and [the] labor of righteousness [will be] quietness and security until perpetuity.

18 My people will live in their homes peacefully, and safely, and calmly, in places of rest.

And it will dwell people my in a habitation of peace and in dwelling places of security and in resting places undisturbed.

19 [Even if a severe] hailstorm knocks down [the trees in] the forest, and [all the buildings in] the city are blown down,

And it will hail when comes down the forest and with lowness it will become low the city.

20 Yahweh [will greatly] bless you; you will plant [seeds in fields] alongside the streams [and there will be abundant crops]. Your donkeys and cattle will easily find grass to eat.

How blessed [are]! you O [those who] sow at every water O [those who] let loose [the] foot of the ox and the donkey.