Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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Gill's Exposition
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath Which they have gotten in an unjust way, and have hoarded up, and put their confidence in; these were…
Barnes' Notes
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath - Gain unjustly gotten was the cause of their destruction. For, as Ezekiel closes the like description;…
Adam Clarke
Their silver nor their gold - In which they trusted, and from which they expected happiness; these shall not profit them in this awful day. And God will bring this about speedily; and a speedy…
Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching…
Cambridge Bible
The idea of the verse is illustrated in Pro 11:4, "Riches profit not in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivereth from death," cf. Eze 7:19. The instruments also whom Jehovah employs to execute…
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