They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed - just retribution: they had abused their silver and gold by converting them into idols, "the stumbling block of their iniquity" (Ezekiel 14:3-4; Ezekiel 1:1-28:e., 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," shall, in despair, be "cast" by them "into the streets" as a prey to the foe, by whom they shall be "remove." Compare Proverbs 11:4, "Riches profit not in the day of wrath." (Grotius translates, as margin, 'shall be despised as an unclean thing;' rather, as suits the parallelism, 'shall be put away from them' by the Jews (Calvin). Literally, 'shall be for removal,' as an unclean thing is separated or put away х lªnidaah (H5079)].
They shall not satisfy their souls - "they (the silver and gold) shall not satisfy their souls," i:e., their cravings of appetite and other needs.