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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 32, Verse 2

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Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
King James Version
And 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.
American Standard Version
And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
New English Translation
Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.
World English Bible
A 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.
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And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
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The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
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For 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.
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The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
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Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
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Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
12
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.