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Government with Justice Predicted

32See, a king will reign in righteousness,
   and princes will rule with justice.
² Each will be like a hiding-place from the wind,
   a covert from the tempest,
like streams of water in a dry place,
   like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
³ Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed,
   and the ears of those who have hearing will listen.
⁴ The minds of the rash will have good judgement,
   and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
⁵ A fool will no longer be called noble,
   nor a villain be said to be honourable.
⁶ For fools speak folly,
   and their minds plot iniquity:
to practise ungodliness,
   to utter error concerning the Lord,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
   and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
⁷ The villainies of villains are evil;
   they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
   even when the plea of the needy is right.
⁸ But those who are noble plan noble things,
   and by noble things they stand.