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

Ezekiel 7:19

19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ^{▼▼ The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.} Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ^{▼▼ Compare Zeph 1:18.} They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ^{▼▼ Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).} was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ^{▼▼ The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).}