1 Behold, one king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall preside unto judgment. 2 And that 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 hot land. 3 And the eyes of those that see shall not be dim, and the ears of those 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 person shall no longer be called liberal, nor the greedy said to be bountiful. 6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will invent iniquity to work unrighteousness and to speak scornfully against the LORD, leaving the soul of the hungry empty and taking away the drink of the thirsty. 7 Certainly the greedy use evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment against the poor. 8 But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he rise.