1. Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
2. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3. And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
4. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be quick to speak plainly.
5. The vile person shall be no more called generous, nor the selfish person said to be bountiful.
6. For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice 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.
7. The schemes also of the selfish person are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
8. But the generous man devises generous things; and by generous things shall he stand.
9. Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech.
10. Many days and years shall you be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11. Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth upon your loins.
12. They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyful city:
14. Because 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 for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;
15. Until 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.
16. Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19. When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be brought very low.
20. Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send out the feet of the ox and the donkey there.
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