19. cast . . . silver in . . . streets —just retribution; they had abused their silver and gold by converting them into idols, "the stumbling-block of their iniquity" ( Ezekiel 14:3 ; Ezekiel 14:4 , that is, an occasion of sinning); so these silver and gold idols, so far from "being able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath" (see Proverbs 11:4 ), shall, in despair, be cast by them into the streets as a prey to the foe, by whom they shall be "removed" (GROTIUS translates as the Margin, "shall be despised as an unclean thing"); or rather, as suits the parallelism, "shall be put away from them" by the Jews [CALVIN]. "They (the silver and gold) shall not satisfy their souls," that is, their cravings of appetite and other needs. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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