Ezekiel 7:22
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall pollute my place where I dwelt in secret; and therein shall barbarians enter and pollute it.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23Make chains; for the land is full of blood-guiltiness, and the city is full of violence.
Cross References
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hath hidden his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary utter defiance? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Jeremiah 18:17Like an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; with the back, and not the face, will I regard them on the day of their calamity.
Ezekiel 39:23And the nations shall know that for their iniquity did the house of Israel go into exile; because they had trespassed against me, and I had hidden my face from them; and I gave them up therefore into the hand of their oppressors, 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 →