Ezekiel 7:22

My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the destroyers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

21And I will giue it into the handes of the strangers to be spoyled, and to the wicked of the earth to be robbed, and they shall pollute it.

23Make a chaine: for the lande is full of the iudgement of blood, and the citie is full of crueltie.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.

Psalms 74:10O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them with an East winde before the enemie: I will shewe them the backe, and not the face in the day of their destruction.

Ezekiel 39:23And the heathen shall knowe, that ye house of Israel went into captiuitie for their iniquitie, because they trespassed against me: therefore hid I my face from them, and gaue them into ye hand of their enemies: so fell they 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 →

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