Isaiah 32:5
The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord the king, I pray, regard this naughty man Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
Proverbs 23:6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
Malachi 3:18And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 32:2-9
The Reign of Justice. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a 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… Read the whole commentary →