Isaiah 32:1WEB
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
Loading themes
Seek and you shall find
Step 1 of 4
The screens can be English or Spanish. English passages use World English Bible or King James. Spanish passages use the public-domain Reina-Valera 1909.
The text
IsaiahWEB
Isaiah 32:1WEB
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32:2WEB
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32:3WEB
The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Isaiah 32:4WEB
The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 32:5WEB
The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
Isaiah 32:6WEB
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 32:7WEB
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Isaiah 32:8WEB
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
Isaiah 32:9WEB
Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isaiah 32:10WEB
For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.
Isaiah 32:11WEB
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Isaiah 32:12WEB
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 32:13WEB
Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 32:14WEB
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
Isaiah 32:15WEB
until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 32:16WEB
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 32:17WEB
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 32:18WEB
My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
Isaiah 32:19WEB
though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
Isaiah 32:20WEB
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.