King James Version
Isaiah 32:17 in the King James Version says “And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.”
Isaiah 32:17 · KJV
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. low in: or, utterly abased
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“And the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of righteousness”
H6666rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
“shall be peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“of righteousness”
H6666rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
“and assurance”
H983properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely
“for”
H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“ever”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
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