Ezekiel 7:19
ContextNETBible | 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 |
XREF | 2Ki 7:7,8,15; Job 20:12-23; Ps 78:30,31; Pr 11:4; Ec 5:10; Isa 2:20; Isa 30:22; Isa 55:2; Eze 14:3,4,7; Eze 44:12; Zep 1:18; Mt 16:26; Lu 12:19,20; Ro 11:9 |
NET © Notes |
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). |