Isaiah 32

1 See, a king will reign justly and princes will rule rightly.
2 Each of them will be a shelter from the wind, a retreat from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.
3 The eyes of those who see will not be closed; the ears of those who hear will be attentive.
4 The flighty will become wise and capable, and the stutterers will speak fluently and clearly.
5 No more will the fool be called noble, nor the trickster be considered honorable.
6 For the fool speaks foolishly, planning evil in his heart: How to do wickedness, to speak perversely against the LORD, To let the hungry go empty and the thirsty be without drink.
7 And the trickster uses wicked trickery, planning crimes: How to ruin the poor with lies, and the needy when they plead their case.
8 But the noble man plans noble things, and by noble things he stands.
9 O complacent ladies, rise up and hear my voice, overconfident women, give heed to my words.
10 In a little more than a year you overconfident ones will be shaken; The vintage will fail, there will be no harvest.
11 Tremble, you who are complacent! Shudder, you who are overconfident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth to cover you.
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, the fruitful vine,
13 And the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the wanton city.
14 Yes, the castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted;
15 Until the spirit from on high is poured out on us. Then will the desert become an orchard and the orchard be regarded as a forest.
16 Right will dwell in the desert and justice abide in the orchard.
17 Justice will bring about peace; right will produce calm and security.
18 My people will live in peaceful country, in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.
19 Down it comes, as trees come down in the forest! The city will be utterly laid low. Hill and tower will become wasteland forever for wild asses to frolic in, and flocks to pasture,
20 Happy are you who sow beside every stream, and let the ox and the ass go freely!

Isaiah 33

1 Woe, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; when wearied with betraying, you will be betrayed.
2 O LORD, have pity on us, for you we wait. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble!
3 At the roaring sound, peoples flee; when you rise in your majesty, nations are scattered.
4 Men gather spoil as caterpillars are gathered up; they rush upon it like the onrush of locusts.
5 The LORD is exalted, enthroned on high; he fills Zion with right and justice.
6 That which makes her seasons lasting, the riches that save her, are wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is her treasure.
7 See, the men of Ariel cry out in the streets, the messengers of Shalem weep bitterly.
8 The highways are desolate, travelers have quit the paths, Covenants are broken, their terms are spurned; yet no man gives it a thought.
9 The country languishes in mourning, Lebanon withers with shame; Sharon is like the steppe, Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10 Now will I rise up, says the LORD, now will I be exalted, now be lifted up.
11 You conceive dry grass, bring forth stubble; my spirit shall consume you like fire.
12 The peoples shall be as in a limekiln, like brushwood cut down for burning in the fire.
13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14 On Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: Who of us can live with the consuming fire? who of us can live with the everlasting flames?
15 He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who spurns what is gained by oppression, Brushing his hands free of contact with a bribe, stopping his ears lest he hear of bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil--
16 He shall dwell on the heights, his stronghold shall be the rocky fastness, his food and drink in steady supply.
17 Your eyes will see a king in his splendor, they will look upon a vast land.
18 Your mind will dwell on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
19 To the people of alien tongue you will look no more, the people of obscure speech, stammering in a language not understood.
20 Look to Zion, the city of our festivals; let your eyes see Jerusalem as a quiet abode, a tent not to be struck, Whose pegs will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes severed.
21 In a place of rivers and wide streams on which no boat is rowed, where no majestic ship passes,
22 Indeed the LORD will be there with us, majestic; yes, the LORD our judge, the LORD our lawgiver, the LORD our king, he it is who will save us.
23 The rigging hangs slack; it cannot hold the mast in place, nor keep the sail spread out. Then the blind will divide great spoils and the lame will carry off the loot.
24 No one who dwells there will say, I am sick; the people who live there will be forgiven their guilt.

Isaiah 34

1 Come near, O nations, and hear; be attentive, O peoples! Let the earth and what fills it listen, the world and all it produces.
2 The LORD is angry with all the nations and is wrathful against all their host; he has doomed them and given them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out, their corpses shall send up a stench; The mountains shall run with their blood,
4 and all the hills shall rot; The heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither away, As the leaf wilts on the vine, or as the fig withers on the tree.
5 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, lo, it shall come down in judgment upon Edom, a people I have doomed.
6 The LORD has a sword filled with blood, greasy with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys; For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Wild oxen shall be struck down with fatlings, and bullocks with bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their earth greasy with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of requital by Zion's defender.
9 Edom's streams shall be changed into pitch and her earth into sulphur, and her land shall become burning pitch;
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation she shall lie waste, never again shall anyone pass through her.
11 But the desert owl and hoot owl shall possess her, the screech owl and raven shall dwell in her. The LORD will measure her with line and plummet to be an empty waste for satyrs to dwell in.
12 Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone.
13 Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches.
14 Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest.
15 There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow; There shall the kites assemble, none shall be missing its mate.
16 Look in the book of the LORD and read: No one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the LORD has ordered it, and his spirit shall gather them there.
17 It is he who casts the lot for them, and with his hands he marks off their shares of her; They shall possess her forever, and dwell there from generation to generation.

Isaiah 35

1 The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom.
2 They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given to them, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak,
4 Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; With divine recompense he comes to save you.
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared;
6 Then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the dumb will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe.
7 The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water; The abode where jackals lurk will be a marsh for the reed and papyrus.
8 A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, nor fools go astray on it.
9 No lion will be there, nor beast of prey go up to be met upon it. It is for those with a journey to make, and on it the redeemed will walk.
10 Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy; They will meet with joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.