YHWH’s Answer #2
YHWH answered me,
“Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that a runner may read it. For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay. Look, his soul is puffed up, and not upright in him. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness. Moreover, wine betrays the arrogant man: He is not at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,+2:5 Sheol is the place of the dead. he is like death and can’t be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations and gathers all peoples to himself. Will not all these take up a taunt against him, and a mocking riddle against him, and say, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of human blood. For you have done violence to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.Woe to him who builds a town with blood,
and establishes a city by iniquity! Look! Isn’t it from YHWH Almighty that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire, and the nations weary themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of YHWH’s glory, as the waters cover the sea. “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of YHWH’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood and done the violence done to the land, to every city and those who dwell in them. “What value does the idol have, that its maker has engraved it? It is a molten image, a teacher of lies. The one fashions its form trusts in idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it. But YHWH is in ʜɪꜱ holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before ʜɪᴍ!”