Ezekiel 7:14-23

Modern English Version

¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet
    even to make all ready,
but none goes to the battle;
    for My wrath is against all the multitude.
¹⁵ The sword is outside,
    and the pestilence and the famine within.
He who is in the field
    shall die by the sword;
and he who is in the city,
    famine and pestilence shall devour him.
¹⁶ Even when their survivors escape,
    they shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys,
    all of them mourning,
    every one over his iniquity.
¹⁷ All hands shall be feeble,
    and all knees shall be weak as water.
¹⁸ They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth,
    and horror shall cover them;
and shame shall be upon all faces,
    and baldness upon all their heads.

¹⁹ They shall cast their silver in the streets,
    and their gold shall become abhorrent;
their silver and their gold
    shall not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the wrath of the Lord;
they shall not satisfy their souls,
    or fill their stomachs,
    for their iniquity has become a stumbling block.
²⁰ They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride,
    and made the images of their abominations
and of their detestable things with it;
    therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
²¹ I will give it into the hands of the strangers
    as plunder and to the wicked of the earth for destruction,
    and they shall pollute it.
²² My face also I will turn from them,
    and they shall pollute My secret place;
for the robbers shall enter
    and defile it.

²³ Make a chain,
    for the land is full of bloody crimes,
    and the city is full of violence.