Yesaya 32:16

32:16 Justice will settle down in the desert

and fairness will live in the orchard. ¹ 

Yesaya 32:18

32:18 My people will live in peaceful settlements,

in secure homes,

and in safe, quiet places. ² 

Yesaya 44:4

44:4 They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, ³ 

like poplars beside channels of water.

[32:16]  ¹ 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.

[32:18]  ² tn Or “in safe resting places”; NAB, NRSV “quiet resting places.”

[44:4]  ³ tn The Hebrew term בֵין (ven) is usually taken as a preposition, in which case one might translate, “among the grass.” But בֵין is probably the name of a tree (cf. C. R. North, Second Isaiah, 133). If one alters the preposition bet (בְּ) to kaf (כְּ), one can then read, “like a binu-tree.” (The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a supports this reading.) This forms a nice parallel to “like poplars” in the next line. חָצִיר (khatsir) is functioning as an adverbial accusative of location.