You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- BSB You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NKJV You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NASB You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NLT You despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
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Quick answer
The people despise God's holy things and profane His Sabbaths. They show contempt for what God has set apart as sacred.
Overview
Beyond social injustice, Jerusalem dishonors God directly by scorning sacred worship and desecrating the Sabbath. The Sabbath was a sign of covenant relationship with the Lord (Ezek. 20:12), so profaning it betrays that covenant. True faith honors both God's holiness and one's neighbor; Jerusalem failed at both.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 23:38–39Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
- Ezek 20:13“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Ezek 22:26Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Ezek 20:21“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezek 20:24because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Mal 1:12“But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
- Lev 19:30“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
- Mal 1:6–8“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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