Ezekiel 7:22 “I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured…”

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“face”

Jeremiah 18:17 Psalm 10:11 Psalm 35:22 Psalm 74:18–23 Psalm 74:10 Psalm 74:11

Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Psalm 10:11 · BSB

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Psalm 35:22 · BSB

O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalm 74:18–23 · BSB

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Psalm 74:10 · BSB

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalm 74:11 · BSB

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Also

Ezekiel 39:23–24

Ezekiel 39:23–24 · BSB

And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all f…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

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