Ezekiel 22:8

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

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 The princes of Israel in you, everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

7 Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

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

9 In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.

10 In you they uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women in their menstrual periods.