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Chapter 2 |
1 | I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon
the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I
shall answer when I am reproved. |
2 |
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain
upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. |
3 | For the vision is yet for an appointed
time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait
for it; because
it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Heb 10:37
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4 |
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.
Rom 1:17
Gal 3:11
Heb 10:38
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5 |
Yea 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 unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: |
6 | Shall 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! |
7 |
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex
thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? |
8 | Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all
the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell
therein. |
9 |
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his
nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! |
10 |
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and
hast sinned against thy soul. |
11 |
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber
shall answer it. |
12 |
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by
iniquity! |
13 |
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in
the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? |
14 | For the earth shall be filled with the
knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. |
15 | Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that
thou mayest look on their nakedness! |
16 |
Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be
uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and
shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. |
17 | For 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 therein. |
18
| What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of
his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? |
19
| Woe unto 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 in the midst of it. |
20 | But the LORD is
in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. |