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\v 1 After I said that, I said to myself, "I will climb up into my guard post,
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\q2 and stand there in my watchtower.
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\q1 I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say,
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\q2 what he will reply and how I should answer."
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\p
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\v 2 Then Yahweh replied to me,
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\q1 "Write plainly on tablets what I am revealing to you in this vision,
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\q2 and then read it to a messenger
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\q2 so he can run with it to tell it to other people.
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\q1
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\v 3 In this vision I will talk about things that will happen in the future.
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\q1 Now is not the time when those things will happen,
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\q2 but they certainly will happen,
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\q2 and when they occur, they will occur quickly,
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\q2 and they will not be delayed.
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\q1 You want those things to happen immediately, but they are not happening.
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\q2 But wait patiently for them to happen!
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\q1
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\v 4 Think about the proud people!
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\q2 They are certainly not doing what is righteous.
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\q1 But people who are righteous will live
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\q2 because they faithfully do what I want them to do.
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\q1
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\v 5 If people live for excess such as wine, they will deceive themselves,
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\q2 and proud people are never able to rest.
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\q1 Greedy people open their mouths as wide as the place where dead people are,
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\q1 and they never have enough,
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\q2 just like the place of the dead never has enough dead people.
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\q1 The armies of Babylonia conquer many nations for themselves,
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\q2 and capture all their people.
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\v 6 But soon all those whom they have captured will ridicule the soldiers from Babylonia!
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\q1 They will make fun of them, saying,
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\q2 'Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things from other countries!
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\q1 You got many things by forcing people to give them to you.
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\q2 But you certainly will not keep those things for long!'
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\q1
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\v 7 Suddenly those whom you forced to be unjustly indebted to you will rise up
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\q2 and cause you to tremble,
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\q2 and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
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\q1
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\v 8 You stole things from the people of many nations.
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\q1 You murdered people of many people groups,
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\q2 and you destroyed their land and their cities.
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\q1 So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
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\v 9 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia who build big houses
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\q2 with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you.
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\q1 You are proud, and you think that your houses will be safe
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\q2 because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
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\v 10 But because you have destroyed others,
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\q2 you have caused your family
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\q2 and yourselves shame!
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\q1
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\v 11 The stones in the walls of your houses cry out to accuse you,
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\q2 and the beams in your ceilings also say the same things!
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\q1
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\v 12 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia who kill people in order to build cities,
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\q2 cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
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\q1
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\v 13 But Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that will be destroyed by fire;
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\q2 they will have worked hard uselessly.
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\q1
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\v 14 But in contrast, like the oceans are filled with water,
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\q2 the earth will be filled with people who know that Yahweh is very great!
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\q1
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\v 15 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia,
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\q2 who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk.
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\q1 You force them to drink a lot of drugged wine
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\q2 until they are drunk and then they walk around naked
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\q2 because you are happy when you see that.
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\q1
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\v 16 But you are the ones who soon will be disgraced instead of being honored.
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\q2 It will be as though you are forced to drink a lot of wine until you will also stagger around, drunk.
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\q1 You will drink the wine that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you,
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\q2 and he will cause others to dishonor you instead of honoring you.
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\q1
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\v 17 You did violent things to the people in Lebanon,
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\q2 and you killed the wild animals there,
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\q1 but you will be punished severely for doing that.
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\q1 You have killed many people
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\q2 and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
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\q1
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\v 18 You people of Babylonia need to know that your idols are completely useless,
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\q2 because it is people who made them.
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\q1 Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you.
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\q2 Those who trust in idols
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\q2 are trusting in things that they themselves created,
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\q1 things that cannot speak!
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\q1
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\v 19 Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood,
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\q2 'Wake up!'
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\q1 Stone idols certainly cannot tell you what you should do;
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\q2 they look nice because they are covered with silver and gold,
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\q2 but they are not alive.
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\q1
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\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple;
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\q2 everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence!"
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