15. ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the scarcity of food inside. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and he who is in a city, scarcity of food and pestilence devour him,
16. while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness.
17. ‘All hands go limp, and all knees become as water.
18. ‘And they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads.
19. ‘They throw their silver into the streets, and their gold becomes as filth. Their silver and their gold is unable to deliver them in the day of the wrath of יהוה. They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because it has been their stumbling-block of crookedness.
20. ‘And the splendour of His ornaments, He set it in excellency. But they made from it the images of their abominations and their disgusting matters. Therefore I shall make it like filth to them.