Ezekiel 7:15-27 - Punishment For Israel's Sins

¹⁵ The sword is on the outside;
plague and famine are on the inside.
Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,
and famine and plague will devour
whoever is in the city.

¹⁶ The survivors among them will escape
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.
¹⁷ All their hands will become weak,
and all their knees will turn to water.
¹⁸ They will put on sackcloth,
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.

¹⁹ They will throw their silver into the streets,
and their gold will seem like something filthy.
Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
They will not satisfy their appetites
or fill their stomachs,
for these were the stumbling blocks
that brought about their iniquity.

²⁰ He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but they made their abhorrent images from them,
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.
²¹ I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.
²² I will turn My face from the wicked
as they profane My treasured place.
Violent men will enter it and profane it.

²³ Forge the chain,
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.
²⁴ So I will bring the most evil of nations
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
and their sacred places will be profaned.
²⁵ Anguish is coming!
They will seek peace, but there will be none.
²⁶ Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.
²⁷ The king will mourn;
the prince will be clothed in grief;
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their own conduct,
and I will judge them by their own standards.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.