Isaiah 32

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¹Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. ✦ ²And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. ✦ ³And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. ✦ ⁴The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. ✦ ⁵The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. ✦ ⁶For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. ✦ ⁷The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. ✦ ⁸But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. ✦ ⁹Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. ✦ ¹⁰Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. ✦ ¹¹Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. ✦ ¹²They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ✦ ¹³Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: ✦ ¹⁴Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ✦ ¹⁵Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. ✦ ¹⁶Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. ✦ ¹⁷And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. ✦ ¹⁸And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; ✦ ¹⁹When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. ✦ ²⁰Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. ✦

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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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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
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