Isaiah 32:1–20

Isaiah 32:1–204 matched frames2 pivots

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1-4 The Kingdom of God – righteousness and judgment
- B 5-11 Warning to the women at ease
  - a 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
    - b 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD,
      - C 6 to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
    - b' 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices
      - c' 7 to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
  - a' 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
  - a 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
    - b 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
    - b' 10 for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
  - a' 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
- B' 12-14 The women shall lament for the land – 12 They shall lament for the teats, 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 joyous 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 of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
A' 15-20 Judgment and righteousness to come – 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 judgment 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 peaceable 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 low in a low place. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.