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.