1I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it. 3For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people: 6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them? 8Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein. 9Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil. 10Thou gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. 11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie. 13Behold, [is it] not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing? 14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 15Woe to him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunk also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy shame come upon thee: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and utter shame [shall be] on thy glory. 17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it. 18What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath engraved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth in it, to make dumb idols? 19Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it. 20But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.