The Righteous Will Live by His Faith
I will astand on my guard post
And station myself on the fortification;
And I will bkeep watch to see cwhat He will speak to me
And how I may respond when I am reproved.
2 Then Yahweh answered me and said,
“aWrite down the vision
And write it on tablets distinctly,
That the one who reads it may run.
3 For the vision is yet for the aappointed time;
It pants toward its end, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, bwait for it;
For it will certainly come; it cwill not delay.
4 “Behold, as for the aproud one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the brighteous will live by his faith.
5 And indeed, awine betrays the bhaughty man
So that he does not cstay at home.
He denlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And assembles to himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all of these alift up a taunt‑song against him,
Even satire and riddles against him
And say, ‘bWoe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself rich with loans?’
7 Will not your creditors arise up suddenly,
And those who make you tremble awaken?
Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
8 Because you have ataken many nations as spoil,
All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—
Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
9 “Woe to him who is greedy for aevil gain for his house
To bput his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 You have counseled a ashameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are bsinning against your own soul.
11 Surely the astone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the framework.
12 “Woe to him who abuilds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with injustice!
13 Is it not, behold, from Yahweh of hosts
That peoples atoil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?
14 For the earth will be afilled
With the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,
As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory.
Now you yourself adrink and expose your own nakedness.
The bcup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,
And cutter disgrace will come upon your glory.
17 For the aviolence done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,
bBecause of human bloodshed and cviolence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
18 “What aprofit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a bteacher of lies?
For its maker ctrusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 Woe to him who asays to a piece of wood, ‘bAwake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with cgold and silver,
And there is dno breath at all inside it.
20 But aYahweh is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth bbe silent before Him.”