Isaiah 32

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¹Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, And princes will rule with justice. ✦ ²A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cover from the tempest, As rivers of water in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. ✦ ³The eyes of those who see will not be dim, And the ears of those who hear will listen. ✦ ⁴Also the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. ✦ ⁵The foolish person will no longer be called generous, Nor the miser said to be bountiful; ✦ ⁶For the foolish person will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity: To practice ungodliness, To utter error against the Lord, To keep the hungry unsatisfied, And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. ✦ ⁷Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice. ✦ ⁸But a generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he shall stand. ✦ ⁹Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech. ✦ ¹⁰In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come. ✦ ¹¹Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists. ✦ ¹²People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. ✦ ¹³On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city; ✦ ¹⁴Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks— ✦ ¹⁵Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest. ✦ ¹⁶Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. ✦ ¹⁷The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. ✦ ¹⁸My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, ✦ ¹⁹Though hail comes down on the forest, And the city is brought low in humiliation. ✦ ²⁰Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, Who send out freely 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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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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