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1.9 :Their faces are set eagerly as the east wind;
 * And they gather captives as the sand.
 * And they scoff at kings,
 * And princes are a derision unto them;
 * They deride every stronghold,
 * For they heap up earth, and take it.
 * Then their spirit doth pass over and transgress,
 * And they become guilty
 * Even they who impute their might unto their god.


 * Art not Thou from everlasting,
 * O my God, my Holy One?
 * We shall not die.
 * O, Thou hast ordained them for judgment,
 * And Thou, Rock, hast established them for correction.
 * Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil,
 * And that canst not look on mischief,
 * Wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously,
 * And holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up
 * The man that is more righteous than he;
 * And makest men as the fishes of the sea,
 * As the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
 * They take up all of them with the angle,
 * They catch them in their net,
 * And gather them in their drag;
 * Therefore they rejoice and exult.
 * Therefore they sacrifice unto their net,
 * And offer unto their drag;
 * Because by them their portion is fat,
 * And their food plenteous.
 * Shall they therefore empty their net,
 * And not spare to slay the nations continually?


 * I will stand upon my watch,
 * And set me upon the tower,
 * And will look out to see what He will speak by me,
 * And what I shall answer when I am reproved.
 * And the answered me, and said:
 * 'Write the vision,
 * And make it plain upon tables,
 * That a man may read it swiftly.
 * For the vision is yet for the appointed time,
 * And it declareth of the end, and doth not lie;
 * Though it tarry, wait for it;
 * Because it will surely come, it will not delay.'


 * Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him;
 * But the righteous shall live by his faith.
 * Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer;
 * The haughty man abideth not;
 * He who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world,
 * And is as death, and cannot be satisfied,
 * But gathereth unto him all nations,
 * And heapeth unto him all peoples.
 * Shall not all these take up a parable against him,
 * And a taunting riddle against him,
 * And say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his!
 * How long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'
 * Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee,