Isaiah 32:17
Good News Translation
Because everyone will do what is right, there will be peace and security forever.

New Revised Standard Version
The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

Contemporary English Version
and justice will produce lasting peace and security.

New American Bible
The work of justice will be peace; the effect of justice, calm and security forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

the work

Isaiah 26:3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Isaiah 54:13,14 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be the peace of thy children. . . .

Isaiah 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands.

Isaiah 57:19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

Isaiah 66:12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you.

Psalm 72:2,3 Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. . . .

Psalm 85:8 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.

Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Philippians 4:6-9 Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. . . .

James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. . . .

quietness

Isaiah 2:3,4 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. . . .

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 11:6-9,13 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. . . .

Psalm 112:6-9 Because he shall not be moved for ever. . . .

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

Ezekiel 37:21,22,25 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take of the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land. . . .

Ezekiel 39:29 And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Micah 4:3,4 And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

2 Peter 1:10,11 Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. . . .

1 John 3:18-24 My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth. . . .

1 John 4:17 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

Context
The Women of Jerusalem
16An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel. 17And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.18And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.…
Cross References
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Hebrews 12:11
Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

James 3:18
And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

Psalm 72:2
Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

Psalm 72:3
Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

Psalm 85:8
I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.

Psalm 85:10
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Psalm 119:165
Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Isaiah 2:4
And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

Isaiah 11:10
In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Isaiah 28:12
To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.

Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

Isaiah 57:19
I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

Isaiah 32:16
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