Ezekiel 22:8
What does Ezekiel 22:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 22:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Context
v.7In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
v.8This passage
v.9Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 19:30
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 20:24
because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Malachi 1:12
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
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