Ezekiel 7:20-27

The Voice

²⁰    They took pride in their attractive jewelry
        and constructed breathless idols and disgusting images with it.
    Therefore, I will make their riches impure and disgusting to them.
²¹    I will give their religious rubbish away to strangers
        as the wicked marauders of the earth loot and defile their treasures.
²²    I will turn My head
        so they may desecrate My treasured place;
    Pillagers will enter into it, profane it, and vandalize it.

²³    Forge a chain,
        for the land is soaked in blood and violence,
    And the city is brimming with brutality!
²⁴    I will stir up the very worst of the nations
        to take possession of their houses.
    I will put an end to the strong ones’ pride,
        and their most sacred sites will be desecrated.
²⁵    When the horror of My wrath comes, they will look for a calm place,
        but there will be nothing but torrential terror.
²⁶    One disaster after another will hit them;
        one bad report after another will come to them.
    Then they will seek a vision from any prophet,
        but no instruction in the law from the priest
        and no wise counsel from the elders will be found.
²⁷    The king will grieve,
        the prince will wrap himself in despair,
        and the hands of the common people will tremble.
    I will deal with them according to the way they dealt with others;
        I will judge them according to way they judged others.