Isaiah 32 (NET)

Isaiah 32:1¹Look, a king will promote fairness; officials will promote justice.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:2²Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:3³Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:4⁴The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment, and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:5⁵A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:6⁶For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the Lord; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:7⁷A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:8⁸An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:9⁹You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:10¹⁰In a year’s time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:11¹¹Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves— put sackcloth around your waists.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:12¹²Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:13¹³Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:14¹⁴For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:15¹⁵This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:16¹⁶Justice will settle down in the wilderness and fairness will live in the orchard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:17¹⁷Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:18¹⁸My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:19¹⁹Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 32:20²⁰you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s