Yahweh Explains (Again):
2 Then the Lord replied:
Record a description of the revelation
make an inscription on tablets
so a herald may grab it and run.
3 For the revelation awaits to be done,
it has spun towards the goal
and will be carried between the poles.
Though it tarries, wait and stay,
it will invariably not be late,
it will not delay.

4 Behold, as for the enemy puffed up;
his heart-stuffs are scuffed up;
But for the righteous, living by faith is enough.
[For the righteous, faith is enough.]

5 Indeed to the haughty, draughts betray,
in his own home he cannot even stay.
Naughty and greedy as the grave;
so needy he becomes death’s slave.
He abducts to himself the nations,
and constructs prisons for every population.
6 Will they not bring insinuations,
and their taunts not haunt him? Singing,
“Woe to him who flaunts stolen property,
who wholly becomes wealthy improperly!”
How long must we sing this song?

7 Will your creditors not wise up,
your debtors wake you up at sunrise
and make your cries rise up?
What wonder, then, you will be under them.
8 Because you plundered many nations,
the populations not sundered will plunder you.

Because you shed human blood like a flood of the dead;
you doomed and ruined territories,
consuming their communities. [x2]

9 Woe to they who build their mansion by unjust expansion, nestling their nest at an extremity,
to possibly remedy calamity.
10 You sought and plotted rotten ruin on many,
brewing indignity on your own vicinity,
fornication against your own vitality.
11 The stones will moan out from the fortification,
and the beams will scream out in mortification.

12 Woe to him who sees assembly
of a municipality through mutiny,
and maintains a city by duplicity.
13 Does not the Lord of Hosts boast determination
that a congregation’s concerns just burn in conflagration,
that the nations consternation is no consideration?
14 For the earth will be filled
with comprehension of the Lord’s majesty,
just as the extension of waters cover the sea.
15 Woe to him who fixes a neighbour’s drink,
mixing poisonous flavours until they can’t think,
rudely poised to exploit them nude on the brink.
16 You will be filled with shame instead of a famous name!
Now you have bad breaks by the drinking game,
your nakedness proclaimed.
You must gobble up the Lord’s goblet,
and disgrace will replace your noble face.
17 The violence you placed upon Lebanon
will overwhelm you,
and your malevolence in razing their realm of animals
will trample all.

Because you shed human blood like a flood of the dead;
you doomed and ruined territories,
consuming their communities. [x2]
18 How viable is an idol whittled by a worker?
How valuable an icon that constructs cons?
For the daft craftsman who drafts one
seeks salvation from his own creation!
He makes idols that are idle.

19 Woe to him who says to wood, “Become vital!”
Or to comatose stones, “You’ve arose!”
You’ve chose that as your deliverer?
Sure, it's covered in cold gold and silver,
but doesn’t hold a simple sliver of spirit within her.

20 Yahweh is in His Holy Temple,
Let the ample earth birth silence in His presence. [x2]