1. I will stand at my guard postand station myself on the lookout tower. I will watch to see what He will say to me and what I should reply about my complaint.
2. The Lord answered me:Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tabletsso one may easily read it.
3. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it testifies about the end and will not lie.Though it delays, wait for it,since it will certainly come and not be late.
4. Look, his ego is inflated; he is without integrity.But the righteous one will live by his faith.
5. Moreover, wine betrays;an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.
6. Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him?They will say:Woe to him who amasses what is not his —how much longer? —and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.