A Righteous King Exposes Folly and Protects People

A king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule as hiding places

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Just rule is shelter and clear perception. The first horizon is royal Judah's hope for righteous government. The poem does not identify a modern ruler as this king, and it does not install authoritarian theocracy.

Fools and churls are named by what they do to the hungry and the poor

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

Titles get corrected. A fool is known by emptying the hungry and stopping the thirsty. A churl destroys the poor with lies even when the needy is right. A generous person plans generous things. Character is the harm or the help, not branding.