1 BEHOLD, A 1 King will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice. 2 And each one of them shall be like a hiding place from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land [to those who turn to them]. 3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed or dimmed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. 4 And the mind of the rash will understand knowledge and have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and plainly. 5 The fool (the unbeliever and the ungodly) will no more be called noble, nor the crafty and greedy [for gain] said to be bountiful and princely. 6 For the fool speaks folly and his mind plans iniquity: practicing profane ungodliness and speaking error concerning the Lord, leaving the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and causing the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments and methods of the fraudulent and greedy [for gain] are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor and the lowly with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is just and right. 8 But the noble, openhearted, and liberal man devises noble things; and he stands for what is noble, openhearted, and generous.