Isaiah 32

1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:3 · 2Chr 31:20 · Ps 45:1 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 72:1 · Ps 99:4 · +13 more

2A 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.Cross-references: Ps 31:2 · Ps 32:7 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 143:9 · Ps 146:3 · Isa 4:5 · +17 more

3The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.Cross-references: Isa 29:18 · Isa 29:24 · Isa 30:26 · Isa 35:5 · Isa 54:13 · Isa 60:1 · +7 more

4The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Neh 8:8 · Song 7:9 · Isa 29:24 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 16:17 · +6 more

5The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:3 · 1Sam 25:25 · Ps 15:4 · Prov 23:6 · Isa 5:20 · Mal 3:18

6For 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:13 · 1Sam 25:10 · Job 22:5 · Job 24:2 · Ps 58:1 · Prov 11:24 · +17 more

7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 10:7 · Ps 64:4 · Ps 82:2 · Isa 1:23 · Isa 5:23 · +10 more

8But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.Cross-references: 2Sam 9:1 · Job 31:16 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 11:24 · Luke 6:33 · Acts 9:39 · +3 more

9Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!Cross-references: Deut 28:56 · Judg 9:7 · Ps 49:1 · Isa 3:16 · Isa 28:23 · Isa 47:7 · +6 more

10For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.Cross-references: Isa 3:17 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 7:23 · Isa 16:10 · Isa 24:7 · Jer 8:13 · +7 more

11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · Isa 2:19 · Isa 2:21 · Isa 3:24 · Isa 15:3 · Isa 20:4 · +10 more

12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.Cross-references: Deut 8:7 · Deut 11:11 · Lam 2:11 · Lam 4:3 · Ezek 20:6 · Ezek 20:15 · +1 more

13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.Cross-references: Ps 107:34 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 7:23 · Isa 22:2 · Isa 22:12 · +5 more

14For 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,Cross-references: 2Ki 25:9 · Ps 104:11 · Isa 5:9 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 24:1 · +8 more

15until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.Cross-references: Ps 104:30 · Ps 107:33 · Ps 107:35 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 29:17 · +20 more

16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.Cross-references: Ps 94:14 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 42:4 · Isa 56:6 · Isa 60:21 · Hos 3:5 · +4 more

17The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.Cross-references: Ps 72:2 · Ps 85:8 · Ps 112:6 · Ps 119:165 · Prov 14:26 · Isa 2:3 · +22 more

18My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,Cross-references: Isa 33:20 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 60:17 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 33:16 · Ezek 34:25 · +5 more

19though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · Isa 10:19 · Isa 14:22 · Isa 24:10 · Isa 25:4 · Isa 26:5 · +13 more

20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.Cross-references: Eccl 11:1 · Isa 19:5 · Isa 30:23 · Isa 55:10 · Acts 2:41 · Acts 4:4 · +4 more