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PROPHETS
for all of them will fall
under my terrible anger.
Even if the merchants survive,
they will never return to their business.
For what God has said applies to everyone—
it will not be changed!
Not one person whose life is twisted by sin
will ever recover.
“The trumpet calls Israel’s army to mobilize,
but no one listens,
for my fury is against them all.
There is war outside the city
and disease and famine within.
Those outside the city walls
will be killed by enemy swords.
Those inside the city
will die of famine and disease.
The survivors who escape to the mountains
will moan like doves, weeping for their sins.
Their hands will hang limp,
their knees will be weak as water.
They will dress themselves in burlap;
horror and shame will cover them.
They will shave their heads
in sorrow and remorse.
“They will throw their money in the streets,
tossing it out like worthless trash.
Their silver and gold won’t save them
on that day of the Lord’s anger.
It will neither satisfy nor feed them,
for their greed can only trip them up.
They were proud of their beautiful jewelry
and used it to make detestable idols and vile images.
Therefore, I will make all their wealth
disgusting to them.
I will give it as plunder to foreigners,
to the most wicked of nations,
and they will defile it.
I will turn my eyes from them
as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.
7:13-22
