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17 Your hands will tremble, and your knees go limp. 18 You will put on sackcloth[a] to show your sorrow, but terror will overpower you. Shame will be written all over your faces, and you will shave your heads in despair. 19 Your silver and gold will be thrown into the streets like garbage, because those are the two things that led you into sin, and now they cannot save you from my anger. They are not even worth enough to buy food.

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  1. 7.18 sackcloth: A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.

17 Every hand will go limp;(A)
    every leg will be wet with urine.(B)
18 They will put on sackcloth(C)
    and be clothed with terror.(D)
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.(E)

19 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,(F)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(G)
It will not satisfy(H) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble(I) into sin.(J)

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