The LORD Answers Again 1 ULT I shall stand at my watchpost and shall station myself on the watchtower, and I will watch to see what he will say to me and what I will respond concerning my complaint. BSB BSB: I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
2 ULT Then Yahweh answered me and said,“Write the vision, and make{ it} plain on the tablets, so that the one reading it may run. BSB BSB: Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
3 ULT For the vision{ is} still for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it. For coming, it will come; it will not delay. BSB BSB: For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
4 ULT Behold! His soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous will live by his faithfulness. BSB BSB: Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
5 ULT And moreover wine deceives the arrogant warrior; and he will not rest, who enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and he{ is} like death and is never satisfied. And he gathers to himself all of the nations and collects for himself all of the peoples. BSB BSB: and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
Woe to the Chaldeans 6 ULT Will not these, all of them, take up a proverb against him, and ridicule, a riddle about him, so that it says,‘Woe to the one increasing{ what is} not his’— until when?‘and loading onto himself pledges’! BSB BSB: Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
7 ULT Will not your biters suddenly rise up, and the ones shaking you awaken? Then you will become spoils for them. BSB BSB: Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.
8 ULT Because you have plundered many nations, all of the remainder of the peoples will plunder you, from the bloodshed of man and the violence of the land, the city, and all the dwellers in it. BSB BSB: Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
9 ULT ‘Woe to the one gaining an evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil.’ BSB BSB: Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
10 ULT You have counseled shame for your house, cutting off many peoples, and sinning against your soul. BSB BSB: You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
11 ULT For a stone will cry out from the wall, and a beam from the wood will answer it, BSB BSB: For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.
12 ULT ‘Woe to the one building a city with bloodshed, and{ who} establishes a town with injustice.’ BSB BSB: Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
13 ULT Behold,{ is it} not from Yahweh of armies that peoples labor for fire and nations become weary for emptiness? BSB BSB: Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
14 ULT For the earth will be filled with knowing the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover over the sea. BSB BSB: For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
15 ULT ‘Woe to the one causing his neighbor to drink, pouring out your wineskin, and even making{ him} drunk, in order to look upon their nakedness. BSB BSB: Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
16 ULT You have become full{ of} shame instead of glory. Drink, you also, and be uncircumcised! The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around to you, and disgrace upon your glory. BSB BSB: You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must 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.
17 ULT For the violence of Lebanon will cover you and the destruction of beasts will terrify them, from the bloodshed of man and the violence of the land, the city, and all the dwellers in it.’ BSB BSB: For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
18 ULT What does a carved image profit when its fashioner has carved it, a molten idol and a teacher of lies? For the one forming its form has trusted in it, to make mute idols. BSB BSB: What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
19 ULT ‘Woe to the one saying to the wood, Awake, to the silent stone, Arise!’ It teaches! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is not any breath within it. BSB BSB: Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
20 ULT But Yahweh is in the temple of his holiness! Hush, all the earth from his face!” BSB BSB: But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.