Ezekiel 7:22

What does Ezekiel 7:22 mean?

A plain-English look at Ezekiel 7:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And I will turn my face from them; and they shall profane my secret [place]; and the violent shall enter into it, and profane it.

Context

v.21And 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.

v.22This passage

v.23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 10:11

    He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.

  • Psalms 74:10

    How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

  • Jeremiah 18:17

    I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

  • Psalms 35:22

    Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • Ezekiel 39:23

    And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

  • Psalms 74:18

    Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

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