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¹ See, a king will reign in righteousness,
    and princes will rule with justice.
² Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
    a covert from the tempest,
like streams of water in a dry place,
    like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
³ Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed,
    and the ears of those who have hearing will listen.
⁴ The minds of the rash will have good judgment,
    and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
⁵ A fool will no longer be called noble,
    nor a villain said to be honorable.
⁶ For fools speak folly,
    and their minds plot iniquity:
to practice ungodliness,
    to utter error concerning the Lord,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
    and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
⁷ The villainies of villains are evil;
    they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
    even when the plea of the needy is right.
⁸ But those who are noble plan noble things,
    and by noble things they stand.

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.
¹⁰ In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent ones;
for the vintage will fail,
    the fruit harvest will not come.
¹¹ Tremble, you women who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
strip, and make yourselves bare,
    and put sackcloth on your loins.
¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
¹³ for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers;
yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the jubilant city.
¹⁴ For the palace will be forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
the joy of wild asses,
    a pasture for flocks;
¹⁵ until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
    and 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 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
    and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
¹⁸ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
    in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
¹⁹ The forest will disappear completely,^[a]
    and the city will be utterly laid low.
²⁰ Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,
    who let the ox and the donkey range freely.