1. I will stand at my watchand station myself on the watchtower;and I will keep watch to see what He will say to me,and what I will answer when I am reproved.
2. And the Lord answered me: Write the vision,and make it plain on tablets,that he who reads it may run.
3. For the vision is yet for an appointed time;but it speaks of the end,and does not lie.If it delays, wait for it;it will surely come, it will not delay.
4. Look, his soul is lifted up;it is not upright in him;but the just shall live by his faith.
5. Indeed, wine betrays the proud man,who does not stay at home.He enlarges his appetite as Sheol,and like death he is never satisfied.He gathers to himself all nationsand collects for himself all peoples.
6. Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, with satire and riddles, and say, “Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long?And to him who loads himself with heavy debts!”
7. Shall not your debtors rise up suddenly,and those awake who oppress you?Then you will be their plunder.