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2:1  I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the lookout tower. I will watch to see what He will say to me and what I should reply about my complaint.
2:2  The LORD answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it.
2:3  For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it testifies about the end and will not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, since it will certainly come and not be late.
2:4  Look, his ego is inflated; he is without integrity. But the righteous one will live by his faith.
2:5  Moreover, wine betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.
2:6  Won't all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say: Woe to him who amasses what is not his-- how much longer?-- and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.
2:7  Won't your creditors suddenly arise, and those who disturb you wake up? Then you will become spoil for them.
2:8  Since you have plundered many nations, all the peoples who remain will plunder you-- because of human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
2:9  Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape from the reach of disaster!
2:10  You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self.
2:11  For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork.
2:12  Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!
2:13  Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
2:14  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD's glory, as the waters cover the sea.
2:15  Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath and even making them drunk, in order to look at their nakedness!
2:16  You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory. You also--drink, and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.
2:17  For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of animals will terrify you because of your human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
2:18  What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes idols that cannot speak.
2:19  Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.
2:20  But the LORD is in His holy temple; let everyone on earth be silent in His presence.