Behold, a king
shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in judgment.
02 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.
03 And the eyes of them that see shall not be
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall
hearken.
04 The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall
be ready to speak plainly.
05 The vile person shall be no more called
liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
06 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.
07 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.
08 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and
by liberal things shall he stand.
09 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my
voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my
speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the
gathering shall not come.
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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.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the
pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up
thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of
joy in the joyous city:
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;
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.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness quietness and
assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet
resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest;
and the city shall be low in a low place.
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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