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77 lines
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# Chapter 2
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1 I will stand my watch
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And set myself on the rampart,
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And watch to see what He will say to me,
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And what I will answer when I am corrected.
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2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
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“Write the vision
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And make it plain on tablets,
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That he may run who reads it.
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3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
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But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
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Though it tarries, wait for it;
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Because it will surely come,
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It will not tarry.
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4 “Behold the proud,
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His soul is not upright in him;
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But the just shall live by his faith.
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5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
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He is a proud man,
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And he does not stay at home.
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Because he enlarges his desire as hell,
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And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
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He gathers to himself all nations
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And heaps up for himself all peoples.
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6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him,
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And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
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‘Woe to him who increases
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What is not his—how long?
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And to him who loads himself with many pledges’?
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7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly?
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Will they not awaken who oppress you?
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And you will become their booty.
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8 Because you have plundered many nations,
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All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
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Because of men’s blood
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And the violence of the land and the city,
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And of all who dwell in it.
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9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
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That he may set his nest on high,
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That he may be delivered from the power of disaster!
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10 You give shameful counsel to your house,
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Cutting off many peoples,
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And sin against your soul.
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11 For the stone will cry out from the wall,
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And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
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12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
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Who establishes a city by iniquity!
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13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
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That the peoples labor to feed the fire,
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And nations weary themselves in vain?
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14 For the earth will be filled
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With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
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As the waters cover the sea.
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15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor,
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Pressing him to your bottle,
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Even to make him drunk,
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That you may look on his nakedness!
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16 You are filled with shame instead of glory.
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You also—drink!
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And be exposed as uncircumcised!
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The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you,
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And utter shame will be on your glory.
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17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,
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And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid,
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Because of men’s blood
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And the violence of the land and the city,
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And of all who dwell in it.
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18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
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The molded image, a teacher of lies,
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That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
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To make mute idols?
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19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
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To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
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Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
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Yet in it there is no breath at all.
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20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple.
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Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” |