¹⁴ They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare everything,^[a] but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude. ¹⁵ The sword is outside,^[b] and the plague and the famine are inside;^[c] the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him. ¹⁶ And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt. ¹⁷ All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.^{[d] 18} And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads. ¹⁹ Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their hunger^[e] and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their^[f] stumbling block.

Judgment for the Profanation of the Temple and Sanctuary

²⁰ “‘And the beauty of its^[g] ornament he made into a prideful thing^[h] and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. ²² And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it. ²³ Make a chain for the land; it is full of bloody crimes^[i] and the city is full of violence.