16 If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity. 17 All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water. 18 They shall put on sackcloth, horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads. 19 They shall fling their silver into the streets, their gold shall be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20 From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them. 21 I will hand it over to strangers as booty, to the wicked of the earth as plunder; they shall profane it. 22 I will avert my face from them, so that they may profane my treasured place; the violent shall enter it, they shall 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.