19, 20. How will the situation of the corrupt Israelite judges be changed, and what will happen to their “glory”?

¹⁹ “What will you men do at the day of being given attention and at the ruin, when it comes from far away? Toward whom will you flee for assistance, and where will you leave your glory,

Isaiah 10:3,

The widows and fatherless boys have no honest judges to whom to appeal. How appropriate, then, that Jehovah now asks those corrupt Israelite judges whom they will turn to now that Jehovah is holding them to account. Yes, they are about to learn that “it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”​—Hebrews 10:31.

²⁰ The “glory” of these wicked judges​—the worldly prestige, honor, and power that come with their wealth and position—​will be short-lived.