7 ¹⁴ "They have blown the trumpet and made all ready; but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 7 ¹⁵ The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 7 ¹⁶ And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one over his iniquity. 7 ¹⁷ All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water. 7 ¹⁸ They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 7 ¹⁹ They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing; their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh; they cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 7 ²⁰ Their beautiful ornament they used for vainglory, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it; therefore I will make it an unclean thing to them. 7 ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. 7 ²² I will turn my face from them, that they may profane my precious place; robbers shall enter and profane it, 7 ²³ and make a desolation. "Because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence,

7 ²⁴ I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to their proud might, and their holy places shall be profaned. 7 ²⁵ When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 7 ²⁶ Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they seek a vision from the prophet, but the law perishes from the priest, and counsel from the elders. 7 ²⁷ The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are palsied by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their own judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh."