1. I will take my stand at my watchpostand station myself on the tower,and look out to see what he will say to me,and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
2. And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision;make it plain on tablets,so he may run who reads it.
3. For still the vision awaits its appointed time;it hastens to the end—it will not lie.If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
4. “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,but the righteous shall live by his faith.
5. “Moreover, wine is a traitor,an arrogant man who is never at rest.His greed is as wide as Sheol;like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nationsand collects as his own all peoples.”