“Write^(A) down the revelation
    and make it plain on tablets
    so that a herald^[a] may run with it.
³ For the revelation awaits an appointed time;^(B)
    it speaks of the end^(C)
    and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait^(D) for it;
    it^[b] will certainly come
    and will not delay.^(E)

⁴ “See, the enemy is puffed up;
    his desires are not upright—
    but the righteous person^(F) will live by his faithfulness^[c](G)—
⁵ indeed, wine^(H) betrays him;
    he is arrogant^(I) and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
    and like death is never satisfied,^(J)
he gathers to himself all the nations
    and takes captive^(K) all the peoples.