| New King James Version | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. | 1I will stand at my guard post and 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. |
| 2Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. | 2The LORD answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it. |
| 3For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. | 3For 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“Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. | 4Look, his ego is inflated; he is without integrity. But the righteous one will live by his faith. |
| 5“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples. | 5Moreover, 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“Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? | 6Won'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. |
| 7Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. | 7Won't your creditors suddenly arise, and those who disturb you wake up? Then you will become spoil for them. |
| 8Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. | 8Since you have plundered many nations, all the peoples who remain will plunder you--because of human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them. |
| 9“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster! | 9Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape the grasp of disaster! |
| 10You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul. | 10You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self. |
| 11For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it. | 11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork. |
| 12“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! | 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice! |
| 13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain? | 13Is it not from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing? |
| 14For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea. | 14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD's glory, as the water covers the sea. |
| 15“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, Pressing him to your bottle, Even to make him drunk, That you may look on his nakedness! | 15Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath and even making them drunk, in order to look at their nakedness! |
| 16You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also—drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the LORD’s right hand will be turned against you, And utter shame will be on your glory. | 16You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory. You also--drink, and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory. |
| 17For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. | 17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of animals will terrify you because of your human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them. |
| 18“What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? | 18What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes idols that cannot speak. |
| 19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, Yet in it there is no breath at all. | 19Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all. |
| 20“But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” | 20But the LORD is in his holy temple; let the whole earth be silent in his presence. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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