1
I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what he will say by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2
And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.
3
For the vision yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; for he will surely come, and will not tarry.
4
If he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by my faith.
5
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.