Ezekiel 7:22
I will also turn My face from them, and they shall profane My secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Cross References
Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten; He hideth His face; He will never see.'
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will look upon their back, and not their face, in the day of their calamity.
Ezekiel 39:23And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they broke faith with Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them 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 →