Ezekiel 7:23
And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
In Context
24And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon it.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 2:34and in thy hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.
Jeremiah 22:17Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thy heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
Jeremiah 40:1And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,
Ezekiel 8:16And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshiping the sun.
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 →