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Ezekiel 7:19
They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through the prophet Ezekiel to the house of Israel during the final phase of Jerusalem’s impending siege and destruction. The oracle addresses a nation facing imminent divine judgment for covenant betrayal.
The words — יַשְׁלִיכוּ (yash.Li.khu) renders “they will throw,” and לְנִדָּה (le./ni.Dah) denotes “an impure thing” or “unclean object.” These terms frame the violent disposal of wealth and its ritual degradation.
The thread — The theme of wealth’s failure in judgment recurs in Proverbs 11:4 and Zephaniah 1:18, which both declare silver and gold powerless on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. Ezekiel 14:7 extends the warning by linking idolatry to the same inescapable divine response.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that material wealth cannot avert divine judgment or sustain life when God’s wrath arrives. It requires readers to identify what they treat as a security net and acknowledge its ultimate inability to save.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 11:4 Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- Ezekiel 14:7 For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.
- Luke 12:19 Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
- Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
- Matthew 16:26 What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Job 20:12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
- Ezekiel 14:3 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?
- Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.