18. They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
19. They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like refuse, because neither silver nor gold can save them when the Lord pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.
20. Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why the Lord has made their wealth repulsive to them.
21. “I will let foreigners rob them,” says the Lord, “and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.
22. I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.