Ezekiel 7:22

22 I will turn My face from the wicked as they profane My treasured place. Violent men will enter it and profane it.

Ezekiel 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:22

My face will one turn also from them
Deny them his presence, and withdraw his protection from them; show them no favour, nor afford them any help and succour in their distress, when they cry unto him; so the Targum,

``I will cause my Shechinah to remove from them:''

unless the Chaldeans are meant, as some think, whose robberies and ravages the Lord would wink at, and not restrain, but suffer them to plunder and spoil at pleasure: since it follows, and they shall pollute my secret [place];
the holy of holies, by going into it, which none but the high priest might do, and he but once a year; though the Targum understands this of the Jews, and makes it to be a reason of what is threatened in the preceding clause, rendering it thus,

``because they have profaned the land of the house of my Shechinah:''

for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it;
as did the king of Babylon and his army; and afterwards, in the second temple, Antiochus, Pompey, and Titus Vespasian.

Ezekiel 7:22 In-Context

20 He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty, but they made their abhorrent images from them, their detestable things. Therefore, I have made these into something filthy for them.

21 I will hand these things over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane them.

22 I will turn My face from the wicked as they profane My treasured place. Violent men will enter it and profane it.

23 Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed, and the city is filled with violence.

24 So I will bring the most evil of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their sacred places will be profaned.