Ezekiel 7:14-23

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¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet, and everything is ready. But no one is going to the battle, because my ·anger [wrath] is against all that crowd.

¹⁵ “The sword is outside, and ·disease [pestilence; plague] and ·hunger [famine] are inside [6:12]. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword. ·Hunger [Famine] and ·disease [pestilence; plague] will destroy those in the city. ¹⁶ ·Those who are left alive and [The survivors] who escape will be on the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys about their own ·sin [iniquity]. ¹⁷ All hands ·will hang weakly with fear [are weak/limp], and all knees will ·become weak as water [or be wet with urine; ^Lrun with water]. ¹⁸ They will put on ·rough cloth to show how sad they are [burlap; sackcloth]. ·They will tremble all over with fear [^LTerror/Horror covers them]. Their faces will show their shame, and all their heads will be shaved. ¹⁹ The people will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like ·trash [filth; an unclean thing]. Their silver and gold will not save them from the Lord’s ·anger [wrath]. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, because it ·caused them to fall [was their stumbling block] into sin. ²⁰ ·They were proud of their beautiful jewelry [or They used God’s ornaments for their own prideful means; ^Cthe ornaments could refer to the temple treasures] and used it to make their ·idols [abominable images] and their ·evil statues, which I hate [detestable/abominable idols]. So I will turn their wealth into ·trash [filth; an unclean thing]. ²¹ I will give it to foreigners as loot from war and to the ·evil [or most wicked] people in the world as ·treasure [plunder], and they will ·dishonor [desecrate; defile; ^Critually] it. ²² I will also turn [^Lmy face] away from the ·people [^Lhouse] of Israel, and they will ·dishonor [desecrate; defile; ^Critually] my treasured place. Then robbers will enter and ·dishonor [desecrate; defile; ^Critually] it.

²³ “·Make chains for captives [^LPrepare/Forge the chains], because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.