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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 22:8

You despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Crime;   Jerusalem;   Sabbath;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desecration of the Sabbath;   Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sabbath, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sabbath;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Despise;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Profane;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.
Hebrew Names Version
You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Shabbatot.
King James Version
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
English Standard Version
You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
New American Standard Bible
"You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
New Century Version
You hate my holy things and dishonor my Sabbaths.
Amplified Bible
"You have despised and scorned My sacred things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
World English Bible
You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.
Legacy Standard Bible
You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.
Berean Standard Bible
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Contemporary English Version
You show no respect for my sacred places and treat the Sabbath just like any other day.
Complete Jewish Bible
You treat my holy things with contempt, you profane my shabbats.
Darby Translation
Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Easy-to-Read Version
You hate all that I consider holy. You treat my special days of rest as if they are not important.
George Lamsa Translation
You have despised my holy things and have profaned my sabbaths.
Good News Translation
You have no respect for the holy places, and you don't keep the Sabbath.
Lexham English Bible
You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.
Literal Translation
You have despised My holy things and have profaned My sabbaths.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast despysed my Sactuary, and vnhalowed my Sabbath.
American Standard Version
Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Bible in Basic English
You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast despised My holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths.
King James Version (1611)
Thou hast despised mine holy things, & hast prophaned my sabbaths:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast dispised my holy thynges, and defiled my Sabbathes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they have set at nought my holy things, and in thee they have profaned my sabbaths.
English Revised Version
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye dispisiden my seyntuaries, and ye defouliden my sabatis.
Update Bible Version
You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
New English Translation
You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!
New King James Version
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
New Life Bible
You have hated My holy things and have not kept My Days of Rest holy.
New Revised Standard
You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My holy things, hast thou despised,- And my sabbaths, hast thou profaned:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.
Revised Standard Version
You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.
Young's Literal Translation
My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

Contextual Overview

1 Now this message came to me from the Lord : 2 "Son of man, are you ready to judge Jerusalem? Are you ready to judge this city of murderers? Publicly denounce her detestable sins, 3 and give her this message from the Sovereign Lord : O city of murderers, doomed and damned—city of idols, filthy and foul— 4 you are guilty because of the blood you have shed. You are defiled because of the idols you have made. Your day of destruction has come! You have reached the end of your years. I will make you an object of mockery throughout the world. 5 O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people far and near. 6 "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder. 7 Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you. 8 You despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest. 9 People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who do obscene things. 10 Men sleep with their fathers' wives and force themselves on women who are menstruating.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 23:38, Ezekiel 23:39, Leviticus 19:30, Amos 8:4-6, Malachi 1:6-8, Malachi 1:12

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Jeremiah 17:27 - to hallow Amos 2:4 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 22:19
Then they returned to the servants and traveled back to Beersheba, where Abraham continued to live.
Genesis 22:20
Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor's wife, had borne Nahor eight sons.
2 Chronicles 25:9
Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about all that silver I paid to hire the army of Israel?" The man of God replied, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this!"
Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible."
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36
As Jesus walked by, John looked at him and declared, "Look! There is the Lamb of God!"
Revelation 5:6
Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth.
Revelation 5:12
And they sang in a mighty chorus: "Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered— to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing."
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows." Then he said to me, "These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 22:8. 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.


 
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