Isaiah 32

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¹Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. ✦ 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. ✦ ³The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. ✦ ⁴The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. ✦ ⁵The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected. ✦ 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. ✦ ⁷The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. ✦ ⁸But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things. ✦ ⁹Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! ✦ ¹⁰For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come. ✦ ¹¹Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. ✦ ¹²Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ✦ ¹³Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. ✦ 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; ✦ 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. ✦ ¹⁶Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. ✦ ¹⁷The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. ✦ ¹⁸My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places. ✦ ¹⁹Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely. ✦ ²⁰Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 35 ·6 Isa 28 ·5 Isa 24 ·5 Isa 5 ·5 Isa 9 ·4 Isa 3 ·4 Isa 29 ·4 Acts 2 ·4

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 32 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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VideoWatch teaching on Isaiah 32YouTube · Lay · Free
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 32David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 32Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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