Ezekiel 7:22

And I will turn away my face from them, And they will profane my cherished place,—Yea there will enter it violent men Who will profane it.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

21Yea I will deliver it Into the hand of foreigners for a prey, And to the lawless ones of the earth for a spoil, And they will profane it;

23Prepare thou a chain,— For, the land, is full of the crime of bloodshed, And, the city, is full of violence.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart, GOD hath forgotten,—He hath veiled his face, Oh he hath never seen!

Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?

Jeremiah 18:17Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy,—The back and not the face, will I let them see in the day of their distress.

Ezekiel 39:23And the nations shall know That in their iniquity, were the house of Israel exiled because they had committed treachery against me, And so I hid my face from them,— And gave them into the hand of their adversaries, And they fell by the sword all of them.

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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