1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2And Yahuah (LORD) answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the righteous shall live by his faith.
5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
6Shall 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 to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties unto them?
8Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil you; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.
11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
13Behold, is it not of Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts) that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahuah (LORD), as the waters cover the sea.
15Woe unto him that gives his neighbour drink, that put your bottle to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
16You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
19Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20But Yahuah (LORD) is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.