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¹ I will stand on my watch, and set myself on the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.² And Yahweh answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run that reads it.³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.⁴ Look, his soul is presumptuous, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

⁵ And how much more arrogant is a traitor, a haughty [able-bodied] man, that does not keep at home; who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and that loads himself with pledges!⁷ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booty to them?⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, because of man's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.⁹ Woe to him that gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.¹² Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!¹³ Look, is it not of Yahweh of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?¹⁴ For the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵ Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, mixing your strong wine, and make him drunk also, that you may look at their nakedness!¹⁶ You are filled with shame, and not glory: you also drink, and show your foreskin; the cup of Yahweh's right hand shall come round to you, and foul shame shall be on your glory.¹⁷ For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction of the beasts, which will frighten you; because of man's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.¹⁸ What does it profit the graven image, that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashions its form trusts therein, to make mute idols?¹⁹ Woe to him that says to the wood, "Awake; Arise!" [And] to the mute stone, "It shall teach." Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.²⁰ But Yahweh is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silent before him.