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Isaias

Chapter 32 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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Chapter XXXII · Location 32 of 66

Chapter 32 · Open to read

From Isaias · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Isaias Chapter 32 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 32 portrays king and princes governing with justice and judgment. A man is compared with storm shelter, drought waters and desert rock-shadow. Seeing eyes, attentive ears, knowledgeable fools and plain-speaking stammerers follow. Fools and deceitful people lose flattering titles. Foolish speech, hypocrisy, deceit toward the Lord, hunger and thirst deprivation contrast with princely devising. Deceitful vessels and lying devices destroy the meek when a poor man speaks judgment.

Rich women and confident daughters are summoned to hear. After days and a year, ended vintage and gathering bring trouble. Stripping, confusion, girded loins and mourning for breasts, country and vineyard are explicitly retained. Briers overrun land and joyful houses; forsaken house, city, darkness and dens become wild-ass and flock pasture. Sackcloth, mansions, fortified towers and guaranteed safety for grazing animals are not specified.

The spirit's outpouring from on high marks desert becoming charmel and charmel forest. Judgment and justice dwell there; peace, quietness and lasting security are called justice's work and service. People sit in peaceful beauty, confidence and wealthy rest. Hail descends in the forest and city is made low; sowers upon all waters sending ox and ass receive blessing. The edition heading reads these through Christ and his Church; the account does not certify a universal mechanism excluding human politics.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Development: Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Conclusion: Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions.
  2. 2
    Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims.
  3. 3
    Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 81105–81106

    32:1. Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.
  2. Lines 81159–81160

    32:17. And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

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