16 'Even when their survivors escape , they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys , all of them mourning , each over his own iniquity . 17 'All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water . 18 'They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads . 19 'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing ; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord . They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs , for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling . 20 'They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride , and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore e I will make it an abhorrent thing to them. 21 'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil , and they will profane it. 22 'I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place ; then robbers will enter and profane it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 7:16-22
Commentary on Ezekiel 7:16-22
(Read Ezekiel 7:16-22)
Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining the world is the losing of their souls. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. The wealth of this world has not that in it which will answer the desires of the soul, or be any satisfaction to it in a day of distress. God's temple shall stand them in no stead. Those are unworthy to be honoured with the form of godliness, who will not be governed by its power.