17. Every hand will be feeble,And every knee will be as weak as water.
18. They will also be girded with sackcloth;Horror will cover them;Shame will be on every face,Baldness on all their heads.
19. ‘They will throw their silver into the streets,And their gold will be like refuse;Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver themIn the day of the wrath of the Lord;They will not satisfy their souls,Nor fill their stomachs,Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.
20. ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,He set it in majesty;But they made from itThe images of their abominations—Their detestable things;Therefore I have made itLike refuse to them.
21. I will give it as plunderInto the hands of strangers,And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;And they shall defile it.
22. I will turn My face from them,And they will defile My secret place;For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
23. ‘Make a chain,For the land is filled with crimes of blood,And the city is full of violence.