Ezekiel 7:22

And I will avert my face from them, and they will violate my place of mystery. And untamed persons will enter into it, and they will defile it.

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In The King James Version

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

In Context

21And I will give it into the hands of foreigners as a spoil, and to the impious of the earth as a prey, and they will defile it.

23Cause it to be closed. For the land has been filled with the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.

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Cross References

Psalms 74:10But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.

Jeremiah 18:17Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.”

Ezekiel 39:23And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel was taken captive because of their own iniquity, because they abandoned me. And so I concealed my face from them, and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:17-23

The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold… Read the whole commentary →

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