and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false.
Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come.
It won't delay.
002:004 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him,
but the righteous will live by his faith.
002:005 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay
at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death,
and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations,
and heaps to himself all peoples.
002:006 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting
proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases
that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion!
How long?'
002:007 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make
you tremble, and you will be their victim?
002:008 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant
of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood,
and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all
who dwell in it.
002:009 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set
his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
002:010 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples,
and have sinned against your soul.
002:011 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out
of the woodwork will answer it.
002:012 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes
a city by iniquity!
002:013 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor
for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
002:014 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory
of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
002:015 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your
inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze
at their naked bodies!
002:016 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink,
and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come
around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
002:017 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid;
because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land,
to every city and to those who dwell in them.
002:018 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has
engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies,
that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
002:019 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute
stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid
with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in
the midst of it.
002:020 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be
silent before him!"
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