Ezekiel 7:19

Has money always beenAmerica’s god?

Ezekiel 7:19

19 ‘They will throw their silver into the streets,

And their gold will be like refuse;

Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them

In the day of the wrath of the Lord;

They will not satisfy their souls,

Nor fill their stomachs,

Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

When disaster comes, the desire to survive overcomes that of keeping valuable possessions, especially heavy precious metals. In Isaiah’s description of the Day of Yahweh, the people throw away their idols of silver and gold. The wealthy and the poor are now equal; riches cannot deliver anyone from God’s wrath. Faithlife Bible.

Those left alive would hide in the hills and be characterized by four things: (1) mourning—moaning like doves in shame, displaying their humiliation over sin by wearing sackcloth and shaving their heads (2) weakness; (3) horror; and (4) disgust and disillusionment over wealth. NKJ Bible.

Proverbs 11:4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Jeremiah 15:13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder without price, because of all your sins, throughout your territories.

Zephaniah 1:18 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 will make speedy riddance of all those who dwell in the land.