Isaiah 32:6
For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:10And Nabal answered David's servants, and said: 'Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master;
Job 24:2There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Proverbs 11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.
Isaiah 3:15What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
Isaiah 59:13Transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and perverseness, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Ezekiel 34:18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
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 →