1See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice.
2And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
3And the eyes of those who see will not gaze, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
4And the ⌞minds⌟ of the rash will understand ⌞knowledge⌟, and the tongues of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.
5A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said to be eminent.
6For a fool speaks folly, and his ⌞mind⌟ does iniquity: to ⌞behave wickedly⌟, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave the throat of the hungry empty, and he deprives the thirsty of drink.
7And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception even when the speech of the needy is right.
8But the nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things.
9Women who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word!
10⌞In a year⌟ you will tremble, carefree ones, for the vintage will come to an end; the harvest will not come.
11Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins,
12mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,
13over the soil of my people. It goes up in thorns and briers, indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.
14For the palace will be forsaken, the ⌞crowded city⌟ deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become a cave forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture ⌞for⌟ flocks.
15Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.
16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.
17And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.
18And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.
19And it hails when ⌞the forest comes down⌟, and the city will become low in humiliation.
20Happy are you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.