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1. I shall stand at my post, I shall station myself on my watch-tower, watching to see what he will say to me, what answer he will make to my complaints.

1. I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

2. Then Yahweh answered me and said, 'Write the vision down, inscribe it on tablets to be easily read.

2. And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.

3. For the vision is for its appointed time, it hastens towards its end and it will not lie; although it may take some time, wait for it, for come it certainly will before too long.

3. For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end -- it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

4. 'You see, anyone whose heart is not upright will succumb, but the upright will live through faithfulness.'

4. Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

5. Now, surely, wealth is treacherous! He is arrogant, for ever on the move, with appetite as large as Sheol and as insatiable as Death, gathering in all the nations, and making a harvest of all peoples.

5. Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples."

6. Are not the peoples all bound to satirise and make up cryptic riddles about him? As for instance: Disaster to anyone who amasses goods not his (for how long?) and to anyone who weighs himself down with goods taken in pledge!

6. Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own -- for how long? -- and loads himself with pledges!"

7. Will not your creditors suddenly stand up, will not those who make you shiver wake up, and you will fall a prey to them?

7. Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.

8. Since you have plundered many nations, all the nations that remain will plunder you, because of the bloodshed and violence done to the country, to the city and to all who live in it.

8. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

9. Disaster to anyone who amasses ill-gotten gains for his house, so as to fix his nest on high and so evade the reach of misfortune!

9. Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

10. You have conspired to bring shame on your house: by overthrowing many peoples you have worked your own ruin.

10. You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

11. For the very stone will protest from the wall, and the beam will respond from the framework.

11. For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

12. Disaster to anyone who builds a town with bloodshed and founds a city on wrong-doing!

12. Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!

13. Is it not thanks to Yahweh Sabaoth that the peoples' toil is fuel for the fire, and the nations' labour came to nothing?

13. Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?

14. But the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the depths of the sea.

14. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

15. Disaster to anyone who makes his neighbours drink, pouring out his poison until they are drunk, so that he can see them naked!

15. Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!

16. You are full of shame, not glory! Your turn now to drink and show your foreskin. The cup in Yahweh's right hand comes round to you, and disgrace will overshadow your glory.

16. You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!

17. For the violence done to the Lebanon will overwhelm you and the massacre of animals will terrify you, because of the bloodshed and violence done to the country, to the city and to all who live in it. Disaster to anyone who says to the log, 'Wake up!', to the dumb stone, 'On your feet!' (This is the prophecy!) Look, he is encased in gold and silver,-- but not a breath of life inside it!

17. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

18. What use is a sculpted image that a sculptor should make it? - a metal image, a lying instructor! And why does the image-maker put his trust in it, that he should make dumb idols?

18. What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

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19. Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

20. But Yahweh is in his holy Temple: let the whole earth be silent before him.

20. But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.



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