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ULT HAB Chapter 2

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2 I shall stand at my watchpost

and shall station myself on the watchtower,

and I will watch to see what he will say to me

and what I will respond concerning my complaint.

2 Then Yahweh answered me and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain on the tablets,

so that the one reading it may run.

3 For the vision is still for the appointed time;

it speaks of the end and will not lie.

Though it tarries, wait for it.

For coming, it will come; it will not delay.

4 Behold! His soul is puffed up;

it is not upright within him,

but the righteous will live by his faithfulness.

5 And moreover wine deceives the arrogant warrior;

and he will not rest,

who enlarges his appetite like Sheol,

and he is like death and is never satisfied.

And he gathers to himself all of the nations

and collects for himself all of the peoples.

6 Will not these, all of them, take up a proverb against him,

and ridicule, a riddle about him, so that it says,

‘Woe to the one increasing what is not his’—until when?

‘and loading onto himself pledges’!

7 Will not your biters suddenly rise up,

and the ones shaking you awaken?

Then you will become spoils for them.

8 Because you have plundered many nations,

all of the remainder of the peoples will plunder you,

from the bloodshed of man and the violence of the land,

the city, and all the dwellers in it.

9 ‘Woe to the one gaining an evil gain for his house,

to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil.’

10 You have counseled shame for your house,

cutting off many peoples, and sinning against your soul.

11 For a stone will cry out from the wall,

and a beam from the wood will answer it,

12 ‘Woe to the one building a city with bloodshed,

and who establishes a town with injustice.’

13 Behold, is it not from Yahweh of armies

that peoples labor for fire and nations become weary for emptiness?

14 For the earth will be filled with knowing the glory of Yahweh,

as the waters cover over the sea.

15 ‘Woe to the one causing his neighbor to drink,

pouring out your wineskin, and even making him drunk,

in order to look upon their nakedness.

16 You have become full of shame instead of glory.

Drink, you also, and be uncircumcised!

The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around to you,

and disgrace upon your glory.

17 For the violence of Lebanon will cover you

and the destruction of beasts will terrify them,

from the bloodshed of man and the violence of the land,

the city, and all the dwellers in it.’

18 What does a carved image profit when its fashioner has carved it,

a molten idol and a teacher of lies?

For the one forming its form has trusted in it,

to make mute idols.

19 ‘Woe to the one saying to the wood, Awake,

to the silent stone, Arise!’

It teaches!

Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,

but there is not any breath within it.

20 But Yahweh is in the temple of his holiness!

Hush, all the earth from his face!”

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