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¹ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and rulers shall rule in judgment.² And a man shall be a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place; like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.³ And the eyes of those that see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.⁴ And the heart of the hurrying shall discern knowledge; and the tongue of those that stutter shall hurry to speak clear things.⁵ The fool shall no more be called noble, and a miser will not be said to be generous.⁶ For the fool speaks foolishness, and his heart works iniquity, to do ungodliness; and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the hungry soul empty; and he causes the drink of the thirsty to fail.⁷ And the weapons of the miser are evil; he devises wicked plots to destroy the poor with lying words, even the needy when he speaks right.⁸ But the noble one devises noble things; and he shall rise by noble things.

⁹ O women who are at ease, rise up. Hear my voice; confident daughters, listen to my word.¹⁰ You will shake for days on a year, confident women; for the vintage fails; the gathering will not come.¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins;¹² be wailing over breasts, over pleasant fields, over the fruitful vine.¹³ Thorns and briers shall spring up on the land of My people; even over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city,¹⁴ because the palace is forsaken; the crowd of the city is forsaken; mound and tower are instead caves, until forever; a joy of wild asses; pasture for flocks;¹⁵ until is poured out on us the Spirit from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field; and the fruitful field is reckoned as a forest.¹⁶ Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in the fruitful field.¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the service of righteousness shall be quietness and hope forever.¹⁸ And My people shall live in a peaceful home, and in safe dwellings, and in secure resting places.¹⁹ Though it hails when the forest is going down, and the city is laid low,²⁰ blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the ass.