1. I will stand upon my watch, and take my place on the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run who reads it.
3. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it delays, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
4. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5. Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire like hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps up for himself all people:
6. Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! how long? and to him who loads himself with thick clay!
7. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awaken that shall trouble you, and you shall be for plunder to them?
8. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.
9. Woe to him who covets with an evil covetousness for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10. You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.
11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12. Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13. Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the consuming fire, and the people shall weary themselves for utter vanity?
14. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
15. Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, that puts your bottle to him, and makes him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
16. You are filled with shame instead of glory: drink also, and let your foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
17. For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.
18. What does the sculptured image profit, that its maker has carved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
19. Woe to him who says to wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is covered over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20. But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.