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.
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.”
“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.”
“Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,”
“Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.”
“Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.”