New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness
and his rulers rule with justice,
2 and a man shall be a refuge from the wind
and a shelter from the tempest,
or like runnels of water in dry ground,
like the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.
3 The eyes that can see will not be clouded,
and the ears that can hear will listen;
4 the anxious heart will understand and know,
and the man who stammers will at once speak plain.
5 The scoundrel will no longer be thought noble,
nor the villain called a prince;
6 for the scoundrel will speak like a scoundrel
and will hatch note evil in his heart;
he is an impostor in all his actions,
and in his words a liar even to the Lord;
he starves the hungry of their food
and refuses drink to the thirsty.
7 The villain's ways are villainous
and he devises infamous plans
to ruin the poor with his lies
and deny justice to the needy.
8 But the man of noble mind forms noble designs
and stands firm in his nobility.
9 You women that live at ease, stand up
and hear what I have to say.
You young women without a care, mark my words.
10 You have no cares now, but when the year is out, you will tremble,
for the vintage will be over and no produce gathered in.
11 You who are now at ease, be anxious;
tremble, you who have no cares.
Strip yourselves bare;
put a cloth round your waists
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Assyria and Judah
12 and beat your breasts note
for the pleasant fields and fruitful vines.
13 On the soil of my people shall spring up thorns and briars,
in note every happy home and in the busy town,
14 for the palace is forsaken and the crowded streets deserted;
citadel note and watch-tower are turned into open heath,
the joy of wild asses ever after and pasture for the flocks,
15 until a spirit from on high is lavished upon us.
Then the wilderness will become grassland
and grassland will be cheap as scrub;
16 then justice shall make its home in the wilderness,
and righteousness dwell in the grassland;
17 when righteousness shall yield peace
and its fruit be quietness and confidence for ever.
18 Then my people shall live in a tranquil country,
dwelling in peace, in houses full of ease;
19 it will be cool on the slopes of the forest then,
and cities shall lie peaceful in the plain.
20 Happy shall you be, sowing every man by the water-side,
and letting ox and ass run free.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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