| 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, 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. |
