1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4And the heart of the foolish shall vnderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the stutters shalbe ready to speake distinctly. 5The vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful. 6But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie, and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lorde, to make emptie the hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile. 7For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement. 8But the liberall man will deuise of liberall things, and he will continue his liberalitie. 9Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear to my speech. 10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11Yee women, that are at ease, be astonied: feare, O yee carelesse women: put off the clothes: make bare, and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes. 12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13Vpon the lande of my people shall growe thornes and briers: yea, vpon all the houses of ioye in the citie of reioysing, 14Because the palace shalbe forsaken, and the noise of the citie shalbe left: the towre and fortresse shalbe dennes for euer, & the delite of wilde asses, and a pasture for flockes, 15Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest. 16And iudgement shal dwel in the desert, and iustice shall remaine in the fruitfull fielde. 17And the worke of iustice shall bee peace, euen the worke of iustice and quietnesse, and assurance for euer. 18And my people shall dwell in the tabernacle of peace, and in sure dwellings, and in safe resting places. 19When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. 20Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth [there] the feet of the ox and the donkey.