The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith
2 And the LORD answered me:
1"Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
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For still
2the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seems slow,
3wait for it;
4it will surely come; it will not delay.
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"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but
5the righteous shall live by his faith.
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"Moreover, wine is
6a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death
7he has never enough.
8He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Woe to the Chaldeans
6 Shall not all these
9take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
10"Woe to him
11who heaps up what is not his own-- for
12how long?-- and
13loads himself with pledges!"
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14Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.
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15Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
16for the blood of man and
17violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
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18"Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
19to
20set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
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You have devised shame for your house
21by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
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For
22the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
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23"Woe to him
24who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!
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Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that
25peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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26For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
27the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
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28"Woe to him
29who makes his neighbors drink-- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze
30at their nakedness!
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You will have your fill
31of shame instead of glory.
32Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
33The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and
34utter shame will come upon your glory!
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35The violence
36done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,
37for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
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38"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image,
39a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes
40speechless idols!
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41Woe to him
42who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and
43there is no breath at all in it.
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But
44the LORD is in his holy temple;
45let all the earth keep silence before him."