Part 23

23:032:010 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

23:032:011 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

23:032:012 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

23:032:013 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

23:032:014 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;

23:032:015 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.

23:032:016 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

23:032:017 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

23:032:018 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

23:032:019 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

23:032:020 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

23:033:001 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

23:033:002 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

23:033:003 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

23:033:004 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

23:033:005 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

23:033:006 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

23:033:007 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

23:033:008 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

23:033:009 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

23:033:010 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

23:033:011 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

23:033:012 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

23:033:013 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

23:033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

23:033:015 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

23:033:016 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

23:033:017 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.