Ezekiel - 22:8



8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 22:8.

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Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.
My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.
You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

Thou hast despised mine holy things,.... The holy place, the temple, and the worship of it; holy persons, the priests that officiated there; holy sacrifices offered up by them; the holy word of God read and explained; and all holy ordinances there administered. These words are directed to Jerusalem, the holy city, and to the inhabitants of it, who ought to have been holy men:
and hast profaned my sabbaths; by doing their own work, and neglecting the service of God; and which was an inlet, as it usually is, to all manner of sin.

Thou - O Jerusalem. Mine holy things - All mine institutions, temple, sacrifices, feasts.

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