14. They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare everything, but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude.
15. The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine are inside; the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him.
16. And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt.
17. All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.
18. And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads.
19. Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their hunger and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their stumbling block.
20. “ ‘And the beauty of its ornament he made into a prideful thing and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them.
21. And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it.
22. And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it.
23. Make a chain for the land; it is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
24. And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses, and I will put to an end the pride of the mighty ones, and their sanctuaries will be defiled.
25. Anguish comes, and they will seek peace, and there will be none.
26. Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.