Ezekiel 22 · Verse 8

Ezekiel 22:8

Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:8, King James Version

Ezekiel 22:8 in other translations

BSBYou have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
WEBYou have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
ASVThou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
YLTMy holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.
DARBYThou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
BBEYou have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
WebsterThou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

What does Ezekiel 22:8 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Thou hast despised - All my ordinances are not only neglected, but treated with contempt; and my Sabbaths profaned. There is not only no power of godliness among you, but there is no form.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 22:1-16

The sins of Jerusalem. (Ezek 22:1-16) Israel is condemned as dross. (Ezek 22:17-22) As the corruption is general, so shall be the punishment. (Ezek 22:23-31) Verses 1-16 The prophet is to judge the bloody city; the city of bloods. Jerusalem is so called, because of her crimes. The sins which Jerusalem stands charged with, are exceeding sinful. Murder, idolatry, disobedience to parents, oppression and extortion…

Read the full comment on Ezekiel 22:1-16 →

Ezekiel 22:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קָדָשַׁ֖יka.da.Shaiholy things myH6944
בָּזִ֑יתba.Zityou have despisedH959
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖יsha.be.to.Taisabbaths myH7676
חִלָּֽלְתְּ\׃chi.La.letyou have profanedH2490

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 22:8

  • Ezekiel 23:38-39

    Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

  • Ezekiel 20:13

    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • Ezekiel 22:26

    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.

  • Ezekiel 20:24

    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.

  • Ezekiel 20:21

    Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:4-6

    Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • Leviticus 19:30

    Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

  • Malachi 1:6-8

    A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.

  • Malachi 1:12

    But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26; 20:13,21,24; 23:38,39; Le 19:30; Am 8:4-6; Mal 1:6-8,12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 22:7

    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.

  • Ezekiel 22:8

    Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

  • Ezekiel 22:9

    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.

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Ezekiel 22:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mis santuarios menospreciaste, y mis sábados has profanado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu as méprisé mes choses saintes, et tu as profané mes sabbats.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Meine heiligen Dinge hast du verachtet und meine Sabbathe entweiht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Sanctuaria mea sprevisti, et sabbata mea polluisti.