You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
- KJV Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast 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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- Ezek 23:38–39They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezek 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezek 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
- Ezek 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezek 20:24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
- Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Mal 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- Lev 19:30You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
- Mal 1:6–8“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
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