Isaiah 32:6

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart plans evil 1 and godless actions, and he speaks wrongly against Yahweh. 1 He makes the hungry empty, and the thirsty he causes to lack drink. 1

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

In Context

5The fool will no longer be called honorable, nor the deceiver called principled. 1

7The deceiver's methods are evil. He devises wicked schemes 1 to ruin the poor with lies, even when the poor say what is right. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:10Nabal answered David's servants, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.

Job 24:2There are wicked people who remove boundary markers; 1 there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures. 1

Proverbs 11:24There is one who scatters—he will accumulate even more; 1 another withholds what he should give—he comes to poverty. 1

Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” 1 This is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts. 1

Isaiah 59:13We have rebelled, denying Yahweh and turning away from following our God. 1 We have spoken extortion and turning aside, conceived complaining from the heart and words of lying. 1

Ezekiel 34:18Is it not enough to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample down with your feet what is left of the pasture; and to drink from clear waters, that you must muddy the rivers 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 →

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