Ezekiel 7:22

Then I will turn my face away from them when they defile my cherished place; 1 bandits will enter it and defile it. 1

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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

21Then I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder, 1 and they will defile them. 1

23Make a chain, because the land is filled with the judgment of blood, 1 and the city is full of violence. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten; 1 he covers his face; he will not bother to look.” 1

Psalms 74:10How long, God, will the enemy throw insults at you? 1 Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 1

Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before their enemies like an eastern wind. I will show them my back, and not my face, on the day of their disaster.'”

Ezekiel 39:23The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity because of their iniquity by which they betrayed me, so I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries so that all of them 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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