God’s purpose was soon to be fulfilled
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📚I will stand my watch✭, and place myself on the fortifications,
and will look to see what
he will say to me,
and what answer I should give
when I am rebuked.
2 📚And the LORD answered me,
and said, “Write the vision✭,
and make it plain on tablets,
that he who reads it may run.
3 📚For the vision is yet for
the appointed time,
but in the end it will speak,
and not lie.
Even though it delays, wait for it✭,
because it will surely come,
it will not delay✭.
4 📚“See the proud one✭.
His soul is not upright in him.
But the righteous will live
by his faith✭.
Punishment on the proud and wicked whether Babylonians or His own people
5 📚✭And indeed, because he transgresses
through wine✭,
he is a proud man, and
does not stay at home.
He enlarges his desire as hell✭,
and, like death, cannot be satisfied,
but gathers for himself all nations,
and heaps up for himself all people✭.
6 📚Shall not all these make up
a parable about him,
and take up a taunting
proverb✭ against him,
and say, ‘Woe✭ to him who piles up
what is not his!
And to him who loads himself down
with the weight of pledges✭.’
But for how long?
7 📚✭Will not those who will bite you
rise up suddenly,
and those who will trouble you awake?
And you become booty for them?
8 📚Because you have plundered
many nations,
all the remainder of the peoples
will plunder you,
because of men’s blood, and
the violence of the land,
of the city, and of all who live in it.
9 📚✭“Woe to him who covets ill-gotten
gain for his house,
that he may set his nest on high,
that he may be delivered
from the reach of calamity!
10 📚“You have devised a shameful thing
for your house,
cutting off many people,
and sinning against
your own soul.
11 📚For the stone will cry out
of the wall,
and the beam from the timbers
will answer it.
12 📚✭“Woe to him who builds a town
by bloodshed,
and establishes a city
by wickedness!
13 📚See, is it not of the LORD of hosts
that the peoples labour
for the fire,
and the nations exhaust themselves
for nothing?
14 📚✭For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the glory
of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
15 📚✭“Woe to him who gives drink
to his neighbour,
who puts your bottle to him,
and makes him drunk also,
that you may look on their
nakedness!
16 📚✭You are filled with shame instead
of glory. Drink, you also, and be
counted as uncircumcised✭.
The cup from the LORD’s right hand
will come around to you,
and utter disgrace will cover
your glory.
17 📚✭For the violence done
to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
and the destruction of beasts
which made them afraid,
and because of men’s blood,
and because of violence done
to the land, to the city,
and to all who live in it.
18 📚✭“What profit is an idol when its
maker has carved it,
or a cast metal image,
a teacher of lies?
For the maker trusts in his
own handiwork,
making idols which cannot speak.
19 📚Woe to him who says to
a piece of wood,
‘Awake!’, to a mute stone,
‘Arise!’ Can it teach?
See, it is overlaid
with gold and silver,
and there is no breath at all in it.
20 📚✭But the LORD is in his
holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence
before him”.