1. I will stand at my watch post;I will remain stationed on the city wall.I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to meand can know how I should answerwhen he counters my argument.
2. The Lord responded:“Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets,so the one who announces it may read it easily.
3. For the message is a witness to what is decreed;it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out.Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently;for it will certainly come to pass – it will not arrive late.
4. Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion,but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
5. Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man!His appetite is as big as Sheol’s;like death, he is never satisfied.He gathers all the nations;he seizes all peoples.
6. “But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) – he who gets rich by extortion!’