Ezekiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. 1  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. 2  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth 3  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. 4 

Ezekiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 5  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 6  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 7  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 8  if he sins.’ 9 

1 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

2 sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

3 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

4 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

5 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

6 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

7 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

8 tn Heb “by it.”

9 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”