18. They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.
19. They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.
20. They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
21. I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
22. I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.
23. 'Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
24. Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.
25. When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.