1 The Righteous Will Live by His Faith I will stand on my guard postAnd station myself on the fortification;And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to meAnd how I may respond 2:1 Lit upon my reproof when I am reproved.
2 Then Yahweh answered me and said,“Write down the visionAnd writeiton tablets distinctly,That 2:2Or one may read it fluently the one who 2:2Or is to proclaim it reads it may run.
3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;It pants toward its end, and it will not 2:3 Or fail lie.Though it tarries, wait for it;For it will certainly come; it will not delay.
4 ¶“Behold, as for the proud one,His soul is not right within him;But the righteous will live by his 2:4 Or faithfulness faith.
5 “And indeed, wine betrays the haughty manSo that he does not stay at home.He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,And he is like death, never satisfied.He also gathers to himself all nationsAnd assembles to himself all peoples.
6 ¶“Will not all of these lift up a taunt-song against him,Even satireandriddles against himAnd say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—For how long—And makes himself 2:6Lit heavy rich with loans?’
7 “Will not 2:7Lit those who bite you your creditors rise up suddenly,And those who make you tremble awaken?Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
8 “Because you have taken many nations as spoil,All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—Because of human bloodshed and violence 2:8 Lit of the land done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.
9 ¶“Woe to him who is greedy for evil gain for his houseTo put his nest on high,To be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 “You have counseled a shameful thing for your houseBy cutting off many peoples;So you are sinning against your own soul.
11 “Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,And the rafter will answer it from the 2:11 Lit wood framework.
12 ¶“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedAnd founds a town with injustice!
13 “Is it not, behold, from Yahweh of hostsThat peoples toil for fire,And nations grow weary for nothing?
14 “For the earth will be filledWith the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,As the waters cover the sea.
15 ¶“Woe to you who make 2:15Lit his neighbor your neighbors drink,Who mix in your venom even to makethemdrunkSo as to look on their nakedness!
16 “You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory.Now you yourself drink and 2:16As in DSS and ancient versions; or stagger; lit show yourself uncircumcised expose yourownnakedness.The cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,And utter disgracewill comeupon your glory.
17 “For the violence 2:17Lit of Lebanon done to Lebanon will cover you,And the devastation ofitsbeasts 2:17Lit which terrified them by which you terrified them,Because of human bloodshed and violence 2:17Lit of the land done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.
18 ¶“What profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,Ora molten image, a teacher of 2:18 Lit a lie lies?Foritsmaker trusts in hisownmakingWhen he fashions speechless idols.
19 “Woe to him who says to apiece ofwood, ‘Awake!’To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’Andthat isyourteacher?Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,And there is no breath at all inside it.
20 “But Yahweh is in His holy temple. 2:20 Lit Hush before Him, all the earth Let all the earth be silent before Him.”