Ezekiel 22:8
“Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.”
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
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Related Verses
“Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.”
“In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.”
“Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.”
“And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.”
“In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.”