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20 You took great pride in using your beautiful jewelry to make disgusting idols of foreign gods. So I will make your jewelry worthless.

21 Wicked foreigners will rob and disgrace you. 22 They will break into my temple[a] and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 my temple: The Hebrew text has “my treasure,” which may refer to the temple, to Jerusalem, or to Israel itself.

20 They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
    and used it to make(A) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;(B)
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.(C)
21 I will give their wealth as plunder(D) to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.(E)
22 I will turn my face(F) away from the people,
    and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
    and will defile it.(G)

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