“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.”
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealous wrath, the whole earth shall be consumed; for he will make a terrible and sudden end of all the inhabitants of the earth—the final verses of chapter 1 establish that material wealth offers no sanctuary from divine judgment; money cannot ransom the wicked. The 'fire of jealous wrath' suggests both the intensity and personal character of divine judgment. The cosmic scope ('whole earth') combined with the totality of judgment assures final vindication of divine justice.
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