Ezekiel 7:22
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.
Cross References
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
Jeremiah 18:17As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
Ezekiel 39:23And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face from them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they fell all 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 →