Ezekiel 7:21
What does Ezekiel 7:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 7:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Context
v.20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
v.21This passage
v.22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 79:1
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
- Jeremiah 52:13
And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
- 2 Kings 24:13
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had said.
- 2 Kings 25:13
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
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