Ezekiel 7 · Verse 22

Ezekiel 7:22

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.
Ezekiel 7:22, King James Version

Ezekiel 7:22 in other translations

BSBI will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
WEBI will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
ASVMy face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
YLTAnd I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it.
DARBYAnd I will turn my face from them; and they shall profane my secret place; and the violent shall enter into it, and profane it.
BBEAnd 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.
WebsterMy face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

What does Ezekiel 7:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. pollute my secret place--just retribution for the Jews' pollution of the temple. "Robbers shall enter and defile" the holy of holies, the place of God's manifested presence, entrance into which was denied even to the Levites and priests and was permitted to the high priest only once a year on the great day of atonement.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 The robbers shall enter into it - The Chaldeans shall not only destroy the city; but they shall enter the temple, deface it, plunder it, and burn it to the ground.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 7:16-22

Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining the world is the losing of their souls. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. The wealth of this world has not that in it which will answer the desires of the soul, or be any satisfaction to it in a day of distress. God's…

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Ezekiel 7:22 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.

וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤יva.ha.si.bo.Tiand I will turn aroundH5437
פָנַי֙fa.Naiface myH6440
מֵהֶ֔םme.Hemfrom them
וְחִלְּל֖וּve.chi.le.Luand they will profaneH2490
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
צְפוּנִ֑יtze.fu.Nitreasured [place] myH6845
וּבָאוּ\־u.va.'u-and they will goH935
בָ֥הּvahin it
פָּרִיצִ֖יםpa.ri.TzimrobbersH6530
וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ\׃\ \פve.chi.le.Lu.haand they will profane itH2490

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 7:22

  • Jeremiah 18:17

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

  • Psalms 35:22

    This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • Psalms 10:11

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

  • Ezekiel 39:23-24

    And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

  • Psalms 74:18-23

    Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. …

  • Psalms 74:10-11

    O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
face.
Ps 10:11; 35:22; 74:10,11,18-23; Jer 18:17
robbers. or, burglars.

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

Context

  • Ezekiel 7:21

    And 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 pollute it.

  • Ezekiel 7:22

    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.

  • Ezekiel 7:23

    Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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Ezekiel 7:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y apartaré de ellos mi rostro, y violarán mi lugar secreto; pues entrarán en él destruidores, y le profanarán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et je détournerai d’eux ma face; et ils profaneront mon lieu secret; et les violents y entreront et le profaneront.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich werde mein Angesicht von ihnen abwenden, daß sie meine verborgene Stätte entweihen; und Gewalttätige werden in dieselbe eindringen und sie entweihen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et avertam faciem meam ab eis, et violabunt arcanum meum: et introibunt in illud emissarii, et contaminabunt illud.