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Ezekiel 22:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Ezekiel 22:8

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6 “‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

7 In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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

9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

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Ezekiel 22:1

"Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 22:2

"“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations."

Ezekiel 22:3

"You shall say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!"

Ezekiel 22:4

"You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries."

Ezekiel 22:5

"Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult."

Ezekiel 22:6

"“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood."

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