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Book of Isaiah, Chapter 32

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Chapter 32 of Isaiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Look! A king1 will reign for righteousness2 itself; and as respects princes,[a]3 they will rule as princes for justice itself.
  2. And each one must prove to be like a hiding place from the wind[b] and a place of concealment from the rainstorm,4 like streams of water in a waterless country,5 like the shadow of a heavy crag in an exhausted land.6
  3. ¶ And the eyes of those seeing will not be pasted together,[c] and the very ears of those hearing will pay attention.7
  4. And the heart itself of those who are overhasty will consider knowledge,8 and even the tongue of the stammerers will be quick in speaking clear things.9
  5. The senseless one will no longer be called generous; and as for the unprincipled man, he will not be said to be noble;10
  6. because the senseless one himself will speak mere senselessness,11 and his very heart will work at what is hurtful,12 to work at apostasy13 and to speak against Jehovah what is wayward, to cause the soul of the hungry one to go empty,14 and he causes even the thirsty one to go without drink itself.
  7. As for the unprincipled man, his instruments are bad;15 he himself has given counsel for acts of loose conduct,16 to wreck the afflicted ones with false sayings,17 even when someone poor speaks what is right.
  8. ¶ As regards the generous one, it is for generous things that he has given counsel; and in favor of generous things he himself will rise up.18
  9. ¶ “YOU women who are at ease, rise up, listen to my voice!19 YOU careless[d] daughters, give ear to my saying!
  10. Within a year and some days YOU careless ones will be agitated,20 because the grape picking will have come to an end [but] no [fruit] gathering will come in.21
  11. Tremble, YOU women who are at ease! Be agitated, YOU careless ones! Undress and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] upon the loins.22
  12. Beat yourselves upon the breasts in lamentation23 over the desirable fields,24 over the fruit-bearing vine.
  13. Upon the ground of my people merely thorns, spiny bushes come up,25 for they are upon all the houses of exultation, yes, the highly elated town.26
  14. For the dwelling tower itself has been forsaken,27 the very hubbub of the city has been abandoned; Oʹphel28 and the watchtower themselves have become bare fields, for time indefinite the exultation of zebras, the pasture of droves;
  15. until upon us the spirit is poured out from on high,29 and the wilderness will have become an orchard, and the orchard itself is accounted as a real forest.30
  16. ¶ “And in the wilderness justice will certainly reside, and in the orchard righteousness itself will dwell.31
  17. And the work of the [true] righteousness must become peace;32 and the service of the [true] righteousness, quietness and security to time indefinite.33
  18. And my people must dwell in a peaceful abiding place and in residences of full confidence and in undisturbed resting-places.34
  19. And it will certainly hail when the forest goes down35 and the city becomes low in an abased state.36
  20. ¶ “Happy are YOU people who are sowing seed alongside all waters,37 sending forth the feet of the bull and of the ass.”38

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “And as respects princes.” Heb., u·lesa·rimʹ.
  2. ^ “Wind.” Heb., ruʹach; Lat., venʹto.
  3. ^ “Will not be pasted together,” by a slight correction of M, in agreement with TSyVg; M, “will not look.”
  4. ^ Or, “trusting; unsuspecting.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 49:10; Ps 2:6; 45:6; Lu 1:32; Jn 1:49
  2. ^ Ps 72:1; Is 9:7; 11:5; Je 23:5; Zc 9:9; Heb 1:9; Re 19:11
  3. ^ Ps 45:16
  4. ^ Is 4:6
  5. ^ Is 35:6; Re 22:1
  6. ^ Ps 31:2; 63:1
  7. ^ Mt 13:11
  8. ^ Is 29:24
  9. ^ Is 35:6; Lu 21:15; Ac 4:13
  10. ^ Is 5:20; Ml 3:18
  11. ^ 1Sa 25:25; Mt 12:34
  12. ^ 1Sa 24:13; Ps 58:2; Mc 2:1
  13. ^ Ps 35:16; Is 10:6
  14. ^ Jm 2:16; 1Jo 3:17
  15. ^ Je 5:26; Mc 7:3
  16. ^ Ps 10:7; 2Pe 2:2
  17. ^ 1Ki 21:10; Ac 6:11
  18. ^ Ps 112:9; Pr 11:24; Ac 9:39
  19. ^ De 28:56; Is 3:16
  20. ^ Is 3:17; Je 25:10
  21. ^ Is 7:23; Je 8:13; La 2:12; Ho 2:12; Zp 1:13
  22. ^ Is 3:24
  23. ^ Je 4:8
  24. ^ De 8:7; Eze 20:6
  25. ^ Ps 107:34; Is 5:6
  26. ^ Is 22:2; La 2:15
  27. ^ 2Ki 25:9; Is 27:10
  28. ^ 2Ch 27:3; Ne 3:26
  29. ^ Ps 104:30; Pr 1:23; Is 44:3
  30. ^ Is 29:17; 35:2
  31. ^ Ps 94:15; Is 42:4; 60:21; Ti 2:12; 2Pe 3:13
  32. ^ Ps 72:3; 119:165; Is 55:12; Ro 14:17
  33. ^ Eze 37:26; Mc 4:3
  34. ^ Is 60:18; 65:22; Je 23:6; Eze 34:25; Ho 2:18
  35. ^ Eze 13:11
  36. ^ Is 26:5
  37. ^ Ec 11:1; Is 30:23
  38. ^ Is 30:24

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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