~ By Their Standards and Judgments the Lord Will Judge ~

"Outside is the sword,
inside are plague and famine;
those in the country will die by the sword,
and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
All who survive and escape will be in the mountains,
moaning like doves of the valleys,
each because of his sins.
Every hand will go limp,
and every knee will become as week as water.
They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror.
their faces will be covered with shame
and their heads will be shaved.
They will throw their silver into the streets,
and their gold will be an unclean thing.
Their silver and gold will not be able to save them
in the day of the Lord's wrath.
They will not satisfy their hunger
or fill their stomachs with it,
for it has made them stumble into sin.

. . . "When terror comes,
they will seek peace,
but there will be none.
Calamity upon calamity will come,
and rumor upon rumor.
They will try to get a vision from the prophet;
the teaching of the law by the priest will be lost,
as will the counsel of the elders.
the king will mourn,
the prince will be clothed with despair,
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their conduct,
and by their own standards I will judge them.
Then they will know that I am the Lord."

(Ezekiel 8:15-20,25-27)