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19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth.[a] Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury.[b] They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth[c] was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:19 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.
  2. Ezekiel 7:19 sn Cf. Zeph 1:18.
  3. Ezekiel 7:19 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).
  4. Ezekiel 7:19 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

19 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,(A)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
It will not satisfy(C) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble(D) into sin.(E)

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