King Messiah shall reign in righteousness—The land of Israel shall be a wilderness until the day of restoration and gathering.

1 - Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

2 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

3 - And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4 - The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

5 - The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

6 - For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the L ORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 - The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

8 - But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

9 - ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

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

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

12 - They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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

14 - 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;

15 - 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.

16 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17 - And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

18 - And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

19 - When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

20 - Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.