Ezekiel 7:14-23

The Voice

¹⁴    Though the trumpet will sound to get everything ready,
        no troops will march into battle
        because My wrath is against all the people of Jerusalem.
¹⁵    The sword falls on anyone outside the city;
        disease and famine ravage those who remain inside.
    Those in the open will die by the sword;
        those inside the city walls will be consumed by famine and disease.
¹⁶    The survivors will run for the mountains
        and moan like doves because of their sins.
¹⁷    Every hand will go weak and limp;
        every knee will turn to water.
¹⁸    They will dress in sackcloth,
        and horror will cover them.
    Their faces will be plastered with shame,
        and their heads will be shaved.
¹⁹    They will throw their silver into the streets
        and treat their gold as impure, worthless,
    Once they discover their silver and gold cannot rescue them
        on the day the Eternal ignites His fierce anger.
    They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their bellies with their riches,
        for their earthly riches are what made them stumble into sin.
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.