Isaiah 32:5

The worthless person shall be no more called liberal, and the avaricious man shall not be said to be bountiful.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4The heart also of the rash shall be attentive in order to know, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

6For the worthless person ever speaketh villany, and his heart will work injustice, to practise hypocrisy, and to speak error against the Lord, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty will he take away.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:25Let not my Lord, I pray thee, turn his heart unto this worthless man, unto Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and meanness is with him; but I thy hand-maid did not see the young men of my Lord, whom thou didst send.

Proverbs 23:6Eat not the bread of a man with an evil eye, and do not long for his savory meats;

Malachi 3:18And ye shall return, and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that hath not served him.

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 →

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