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2:1  I will stand at my post and take up my position on the rampart, and keep watch to see what he will say to me and what answer he will offer to my complaints.”
2:2  Then the Lord answered me and said: Write down the vision, inscribe it clearly on tablets so that it can be read easily.
2:3  For the vision is for the appointed time; it will speak of the end, and it will not lie. If it delays in coming, wait for it, for it will surely come before too long.
2:4  The proud man’s heart is not upright, but the righteous man will live because of his faith.
2:5  Moreover, wealth is treacherous; those who are arrogant do not endure. They open their throats as wide as Sheol and are as unstable as death. They gather to themselves all the nations and make a harvest of all the peoples.
2:6  Everyone should taunt such people and turn on them with mockery and say, “Woe to you who store up what is not your own. Woe to you who enrich yourself with goods taken in pledge.
2:7  Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Will you not become a victim to them?
2:8  Since you have plundered many nations, all the nations that survive will plunder you because of the bloodshed and the violence you have inflicted on cities and all their inhabitants.
2:9  “Woe to the one who amasses ill-gotten gains for his household so as to set his nest on high and thereby evade the reach of misfortune.
2:10  You have managed to bring shame upon your house by cutting off many peoples; you have placed your own life in jeopardy.
2:11  The very stones will cry out from the wall, and the beam will respond from the woodwork.
2:12  “Woe to the man who builds a city by means of bloodshed and founds a town on the basis of iniquity.
2:13  Is it not in the eternal design of the Lord of hosts that what the people labor for is destined for the flames, and that everything the nations exhaust themselves to achieve will come to naught.
2:14  However, the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s glory just as the waters cover the sea.
2:15  “Woe to you who encourage your neighbors to drink, pouring it abundantly until they are drunk, so that you can gaze upon their nakedness.
2:16  You will be filled with shame instead of glory as you stagger in your drunkenness. The cup in the Lord’s right hand will be passed on to you, and shame will overshadow your glory.
2:17  For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the massacre of the animals will terrify you, all as a result of the bloodshed and violence you inflicted on cities and all who dwell in them.
2:18  “Of what use is an idol after its maker has shaped it? It is only a presentation, a source of lies. And why should its sculptor place his faith in it, a dumb idol that he has made?
2:19  Woe to anyone who says, ‘Wake up!’ to a block of wood, ‘Rouse yourself!’ to a lifeless stone. Can such a thing offer guidance? It may be overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath of life within it.
2:20  However, the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”