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17 All hands will hang limp, and water will run down every knee.[a] 18 They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Every face will be ashamed, and all their heads will be shaved bald.

19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be polluted by blood.[b] Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s fury. The silver and gold will not satisfy their appetites[c] or fill their stomachs, because it was the cause of their guilt and their downfall.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:17 Terror will cause them to wet themselves.
  2. Ezekiel 7:19 The Hebrew word refers to menstrual uncleanness. Blood made a person ceremonially unclean.
  3. Ezekiel 7:19 Or souls