Ezekiel 7:14-23

Common English Bible

¹⁴They have blown the horn,
    and everything is ready, but no one goes to battle,
        because my wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
¹⁵Outside, the sword! Inside, plague and famine!
    Whoever is out in the field will die by the sword.
        Whoever is in the city,
        plague and famine will consume them.
¹⁶And those who flee?
    They will turn up on the hills like valley doves,
        all of them moaning, those guilty ones.
¹⁷Every hand will hang limp;
    urine will run down every leg.
¹⁸They will put on mourning clothes,
    and horror will cover them.
    On every face, shame;
    on all their heads, baldness.
¹⁹They will hurl their silver into the street,
    and their gold will seem unclean.
    Their silver and their gold won’t deliver them
        on the day of the Lord’s anger.
They won’t satisfy their appetites or fill their bellies.
    Their guilt will bring them down.

²⁰From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride,
    they have made horrible and detestable images!
Therefore, I’ve declared it an unclean thing for them.
²¹    I’ll hand it over to foreigners as loot taken in war,
    to the earth’s wicked ones as plunder—they will defile it!
²²When I hide my face from my people,
    foreigners will defile my treasured place.
    Violent intruders will invade it; they will defile it!