Is 31:2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.
Is 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.
Is 31:4 ¶ For thus says the LORD to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."
Is 31:5 Like flying birds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.
Is 31:6 ¶ Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected, O sons of Israel.
Is 31:7 For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.
Is 31:8 And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man, And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young men will become forced laborers.
Is 31:9 "His rock will pass away because of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the standard," Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Is 32:1 Behold, a king will reign righteously And princes will rule justly.
Is 32:2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.
Is 32:3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will listen.
Is 32:4 The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.
Is 32:5 No longer will the fool be called noble, Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.
Is 32:6 For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness: To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.
Is 32:7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.
Is 32:8 But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.
Is 32:9 ¶ Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You complacent daughters.
Is 32:10 Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.
Is 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Is 32:13 For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.