Ezekiel 7:22
New International Version
I will turn my face away from the people, and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure. They will enter it and will defile it.

New Living Translation
I will turn my eyes from them as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.

English Standard Version
I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

New American Standard Bible
I will also turn My face away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.

NASB 1995
‘I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

NASB 1977
‘I shall also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

Amplified Bible
I will also turn My face away from them, and they will desecrate My secret treasure (the Jerusalem temple); and robbers will enter [irreverently] into it (the Holy of Holies) and violate it.

Christian Standard Bible
I will turn my face from them as they profane my treasured place. Violent men will enter it and profane it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will turn My face from the wicked as they profane My treasured place. Violent men will enter 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.

Contemporary English Version
They will break into my temple and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will turn my face away from the people of Israel, and foreigners will dishonor my treasured place. Robbers will go in and dishonor it.

Good News Translation
I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.

International Standard Version
I'll turn my face away from them so that they'll defile my treasured place. Robbers will enter and profane it!

Majority Standard Bible
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.

NET Bible
I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I have turned My face from them, "" And they have defiled My hidden place, "" Indeed, destroyers have come into it, and defiled 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And I turned my face from them, and they profaned my secret; and the rapacious came into it and profaned it.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And I will avert my face from them, and they will violate my place of mystery. And untamed persons will enter into it, and they will defile it.

New American Bible
I will turn my face away from them. My treasure will be defiled; the violent will enter and defile it.

New Revised Standard Version
I will avert my face from them, so that they may profane my treasured place; the violent shall enter it, they shall profane it.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And I will turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my sanctuary, and robbers shall enter into it and defile it.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I shall turn my face from them and they shall defile my watchtowers, and they shall enter into the gate and they shall defile it
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I will also turn My face from them, and they shall profane My secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Desolation of Israel
21And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. 22I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. 23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 7:29-30
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’ / For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

2 Kings 21:4-7
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” / In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven. / He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. ...

2 Chronicles 36:14-17
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. / Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. / But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. ...

Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Jeremiah 19:4-5
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

Daniel 9:26-27
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed. / And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Matthew 24:15-16
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Mark 13:14
So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luke 21:20-22
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Revelation 11:1-2
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. / But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

Psalm 74:3-7
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. / Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, / like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees ...

Jeremiah 52:13
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

1 Kings 9:7-9
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. / And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ / And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

face

Psalm 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Psalm 35:22
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalm 74:10,11,18-23
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? …

robbers.

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Ezekiel 7
1. The final desolation of Israel
16. The mournful repentance from that escape
20. The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations
23. Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men














I will turn My face away from them
This phrase signifies a withdrawal of God's presence and favor. In the Hebrew context, the "face" of God (פָּנִים, panim) often represents His attention, presence, and blessing. When God turns His face away, it indicates a deliberate act of judgment and abandonment. Historically, this reflects the severe consequences of Israel's persistent idolatry and rebellion. Theologically, it serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of seeking God's presence and the peril of living in disobedience.

and they will desecrate My treasured place
The "treasured place" refers to the temple in Jerusalem, which was considered the dwelling place of God among His people. The Hebrew word for "desecrate" (חָלַל, chalal) implies a profaning or defiling of something sacred. This phrase highlights the tragic irony that those who were meant to honor and protect the sanctity of the temple would instead defile it. It underscores the depth of Israel's spiritual decline and the seriousness with which God views the desecration of what is holy.

robbers will enter it
The term "robbers" (פָּרִיץ, paritz) can be understood as violent men or marauders. This phrase indicates that foreign invaders, likely the Babylonians, would breach the temple, an act that would have been unthinkable to the Israelites. Historically, this prophecy was fulfilled when the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in 586 BC. It serves as a stark warning of the consequences of national and spiritual unfaithfulness.

and profane it
To "profane" (טָמֵא, tame) means to treat something sacred with irreverence or disrespect. This final phrase in the verse emphasizes the complete defilement of the temple, not just by the Israelites' actions but also by the invading forces. It reflects the ultimate result of turning away from God—what was once holy and set apart becomes common and defiled. This serves as a powerful call to maintain the sanctity of our relationship with God and the places dedicated to His worship.

(22) My secret place.--The holy of holies, sacredly guarded from all intrusion, and representing the very culmination both of the religion and of the national life of Israel, shall be polluted. If the pronoun "they" represents any one in particular, it must be the Chaldaeans; but it is better to take the verb, as often in the third person plural, impersonally, i.e., "shall be polluted." The agents in this pollution are immediately mentioned as "the robbers," i.e., the Chaldaean armies.

Verse 22. - My secret place. The work of the spoiler would not stop at the idols of silver and gold. Jehovah would surrender his own "secret place" (secret treasure in margin of Revised Version), that over which he had watched, sc. the sanctuary of his temple, to the hands of the spoiler. In Psalm 83:4 the same adjective is used of persons, the "hidden" or protected ones of God. In the name of Baal-zephon, "Lord of the secret place," we have possibly a kindred thought. In Psalm 17:14 we have "hid treasure."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will turn
וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤י (wa·hă·sib·bō·w·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

My face
פָנַי֙ (p̄ā·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face

away from them,
מֵהֶ֔ם (mê·hem)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

as they defile
וְחִלְּל֖וּ (wə·ḥil·lə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

My treasured place.
צְפוּנִ֑י (ṣə·p̄ū·nî)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6845: To hide, to hoard, reserve, to deny, to protect, to lurk

Violent men
פָּרִיצִ֖ים (pā·rî·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6530: Violent, a tyrant

will enter it
וּבָאוּ־ (ū·ḇā·’ū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and they will defile it.
וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ׃ (wə·ḥil·lə·lū·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play


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