Ezekiel 22:8

8 You have despised my holy things and dishonored the day to worship me.

Ezekiel 22:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 22:8

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.

Ezekiel 22:8 In-Context

6 "'See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to murder people.

7 People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.

8 You have despised my holy things and dishonored the day to worship me.

9 Some of your people slander. They want to kill people. People who live in you eat food sacrificed to idols at the worship sites on the hills, and they sin sexually.

10 Men have sex with their father's wives. They have sex with women when the women are having their periods and are unclean.