15 There is fighting in the streets, and sickness and hunger in the houses. Anyone who is out in the country will die in the fighting, and anyone in the city will be a victim of sickness and hunger.
16 Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
17 Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.
18 They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
19 They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like refuse, because neither silver nor gold can save them when the Lord pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.
20 Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why the Lord has made their wealth repulsive to them.
21 “I will let foreigners rob them,” says the Lord, “and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.