your gold and silver are rusted, and their rust will testify against you and eat into your very flesh, for you have stored up fire for the last days.

for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up,

The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one will buy their cargoes any more??12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of objects of ivory and costly wood, bronze, iron, and marble,

Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,