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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | I will stand
upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will
say unto 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 that readeth it. |
| 3 | For the vision is yet for an
appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. |
| 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 transgresseth by wine,
he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell,
and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations,
and heapeth unto him all people: |
| 6 | Shall not all these take up a
parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him
that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself
with thick clay! |
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7 | Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite
thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
them? |
| 8 |
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the
people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the
land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. |
| 9 | Woe to him
that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on
high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! |
| 10 | Thou hast
consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
against thy soul. |
| 11 | For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and
the beam out of the timber shall answer it. |
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12 | Woe to him that
buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! |
| 13 |
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very
fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very 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 unto him that giveth his neighbour
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou
mayest look on their nakedness! |
| 16 | Thou art filled with shame
for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the
LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
thy glory. |
| 17
| For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the
spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. |
| 18 |
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the
molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth
therein, to make dumb idols? |
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19 | Woe unto him that saith to the wood,
Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid 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. |
