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¹ Behold, ^(a)a king will reign in righteousness,
    and princes will rule in justice.
^2 (b)Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
    a shelter from the storm,
^(c)like streams of water in a dry place,
    like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
^3 (d)Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
    and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
⁴ The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
    ^(e)and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
^5 (f)The fool will no more be called noble,
    nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
⁶ For ^(g)the fool speaks folly,
    and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
    to utter error concerning the Lord,
^(h)to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
    and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
⁷ As for the scoundrel—⁽ⁱ⁾his devices are evil;
    he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
    even when the plea of the needy is right.
⁸ But he who is noble plans noble things,
    and on noble things he stands.

^9 (j)Rise up, you women ^(k)who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
¹⁰ In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
    the fruit harvest will not come.
¹¹ Tremble, you women ^(l)who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
^(m)strip, and make yourselves bare,
    ⁽ⁿ⁾and tie sackcloth around your waist.
^12 (o)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
^13 (p)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
^(q)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.
¹⁴ For the palace is forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
^(r)a joy of wild donkeys,
    a pasture of flocks;
¹⁵ until ^(s)the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
    and ^(t)the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
¹⁶ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
    and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
^17 (u)And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
    and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust^[a] forever.
¹⁸ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
    in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
^19 (v)And it will hail when the forest falls down,
    ^(w)and the city will be utterly laid low.
^20 (x)Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
    who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.