The LORD Answers Again

I will stand at my guard post

and station myself on the ramparts.

I will watch to see what He will say to me,

and how I should answer when corrected.

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Then the LORD answered me:

“ Write down this vision

and clearly inscribe it on tablets,

so that a herald may run with it.

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For the vision awaits an appointed time;

it testifies of the end and does not lie.

Though it lingers, wait for it,

since it will surely come and will not delay.[fn]

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Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright[fn] —

but the righteous will live by faith[fn] —

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and wealth[fn] indeed betrays him.

[He is] an arrogant man never at rest.

He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,

and like Death, he is never satisfied.

He gathers all the nations to himself

and collects all the peoples as his own.

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