ECB(i)
1 I stand on my guard and set myself on the rampart; and watch to see what he words to me; and what I respond to my reproof.
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THE RESPONSE OF YAH VEH
And Yah Veh answers me, and says, Inscribe the vision; and explain on slabs; so that he who runs calls out: 3 for the vision is yet for a season; and at the end it breathes and lies not: though it tarries, await; because in coming, it comes; it delays not. 4 Behold, one swells up! his soul within is not straight: and the just lives by his trustworthiness. 5 Yes also, because he deals covertly by wine; arrogant is the mighty - who rests not in his habitation - who enlarges his soul as sheol; and as death, is never satisfied: and gathers all goyim to himself, and gathers all people to himself. 6 They, all of them, lift they not a proverb against him? and a satire riddle against him? and say, Ho to him who abounds in what is not his! How long? And to him who heavies himself with heavy pledges! 7 Rise they not in a blink - they who bite you? And waken - they who agitate you? And you become their plunder? 8 Because you spoil many goyim all the remnant of the people spoil you - because of human blood and for the violence of the land; of the city and all who settle therein. 9 Ho to him who greedily gains an evil greedy gain to his house - to set his nest on high - to rescue himself from the palm of evil! 10 You counsel shame to your house by scraping off many people and sin against your soul. 11 For the stone cries from the wall: and the crossbeam of timber answers. 12 Ho to him who builds a city by blood - who establishes a city by wickedness! 13 Behold, is it not from Yah Veh Sabaoth that the nations labor for sufficient fire? And the people weary themselves for sufficient vanity? 14 For the earth fills with the knowledge of the honor of Yah Veh as the waters cover the sea. 15 Ho to him who gives his friend drink - who scrapes the wine skin - who also intoxicates just to look at their pudenda! 16 You satiate - abasement for honor: and you drink and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right of Yah Veh turns to you, and an abasement is on your honor. 17 For the violence of Lebanon covers you, and the ravage of animals terrifies them because of human blood; and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein. 18 What profit is the sculptile to the former who sculpts - or the molten, to a teacher of falsehoods, Confides the former of its form to work mute idols? 19 Ho to him who says to the timber, Waken! - to the silent stone, Waken! It teaches! Behold, it is manipulated with gold and silver, and there is no spirit at all in its midst. 20 And Yah Veh is in his holy manse: silence at his face, all the earth.
THE RESPONSE OF YAH VEH
And Yah Veh answers me, and says, Inscribe the vision; and explain on slabs; so that he who runs calls out: 3 for the vision is yet for a season; and at the end it breathes and lies not: though it tarries, await; because in coming, it comes; it delays not. 4 Behold, one swells up! his soul within is not straight: and the just lives by his trustworthiness. 5 Yes also, because he deals covertly by wine; arrogant is the mighty - who rests not in his habitation - who enlarges his soul as sheol; and as death, is never satisfied: and gathers all goyim to himself, and gathers all people to himself. 6 They, all of them, lift they not a proverb against him? and a satire riddle against him? and say, Ho to him who abounds in what is not his! How long? And to him who heavies himself with heavy pledges! 7 Rise they not in a blink - they who bite you? And waken - they who agitate you? And you become their plunder? 8 Because you spoil many goyim all the remnant of the people spoil you - because of human blood and for the violence of the land; of the city and all who settle therein. 9 Ho to him who greedily gains an evil greedy gain to his house - to set his nest on high - to rescue himself from the palm of evil! 10 You counsel shame to your house by scraping off many people and sin against your soul. 11 For the stone cries from the wall: and the crossbeam of timber answers. 12 Ho to him who builds a city by blood - who establishes a city by wickedness! 13 Behold, is it not from Yah Veh Sabaoth that the nations labor for sufficient fire? And the people weary themselves for sufficient vanity? 14 For the earth fills with the knowledge of the honor of Yah Veh as the waters cover the sea. 15 Ho to him who gives his friend drink - who scrapes the wine skin - who also intoxicates just to look at their pudenda! 16 You satiate - abasement for honor: and you drink and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right of Yah Veh turns to you, and an abasement is on your honor. 17 For the violence of Lebanon covers you, and the ravage of animals terrifies them because of human blood; and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein. 18 What profit is the sculptile to the former who sculpts - or the molten, to a teacher of falsehoods, Confides the former of its form to work mute idols? 19 Ho to him who says to the timber, Waken! - to the silent stone, Waken! It teaches! Behold, it is manipulated with gold and silver, and there is no spirit at all in its midst. 20 And Yah Veh is in his holy manse: silence at his face, all the earth.