Discovery BoxIsaiah 32:1 
Context32:1 Look, a king will promote fairness; 1
officials will promote justice. 2
Isaiah 32:17
Context32:17 Fairness will produce peace 3
and result in lasting security. 4
Isaiah 32:16
Context32:16 Justice will settle down in the desert
and fairness will live in the orchard. 5
Isaiah 33:5
Contextindeed, 7 he lives in heaven; 8
he fills Zion with justice and fairness.
1 tn Heb “will reign according to fairness.”
2 tn Heb “will rule according to justice.”
3 tn Heb “and the product of fairness will be peace.”
4 tn Heb “and the work of fairness [will be] calmness and security forever.”
5 sn This new era of divine blessing will also include a moral/ethical transformation, as justice and fairness fill the land and replace the social injustice so prevalent in Isaiah’s time.
6 tn Or “elevated”; NCV, NLT “is very great.”
7 tn Or “for” (KJV, NASB, NIV).
8 tn Heb “on high” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “in the heavens.”
