¹I will take my post;

The LORD responds

²Then the LORD answered me and said,

Write a vision, and make it plain upon a tablet

so that a runner can read it.

If it delays, wait for it;

⁴Some people’s desires are truly audacious;[#2.4 Heb uncertain]

⁵Moreover, wine betrays an arrogant man.

He gathers all nations to himself

⁶Won’t everyone tell parables about him

They will say:

Doom to the one who multiplies what doesn’t belong to him

and who increases his own burden.

How long?

⁷Won’t they suddenly rise up to bite you?

⁸Since you yourself have plundered many nations,

⁹Doom to the one making evil gain for his own house,

¹⁰You plan shame for your own house,

¹¹A stone will cry out from a village wall,

¹²Pity the one building a city with bloodshed

¹³Look, isn’t this from the LORD of heavenly forces?

Peoples grow weary from making just enough fire;

¹⁴But the land will be full of the knowledge of the LORD ’s glory,

¹⁵Doom to the one who makes his companions drunk,

¹⁶You have drunk your fill of dishonor rather than glory.

The cup of the LORD ’s strong hand will come around to you;

¹⁷Because of the violence done to Lebanon, he will overwhelm you;

¹⁸Of what value is an idol, when its potter carves it,

It is a teacher of lies,

¹⁹Doom to the one saying to the tree, “Wake up!”

Does it teach?

Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver,

²⁰But the LORD is in his holy temple.

Let all the earth be silent before him.